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Hi guys,

I've just bought a new Kenwood TH-F7E hand-held (first new radio for
over 20 years!) and can't seem to access any repeaters with it. I
gather this is because they don't use the old 1750hz tone system any
longer and have moved on to newer technology. I'm very out of date
with this stuff, to be honest, having last used repeaters (by
whistling them up) back in the early 1980s when the scene was very
much alive (as does not appear to be the case now). What do I have to
program into this thing to get into today's UHF and VHF repeaters? I'm
primarily interested in GB3OK, GB3KN and GB3CK.

You need to program up memeory channels with the repeater frequencies and
the correct CTCSS.
I would recommend this instead of just turning on the ctcss as this would
be
audible if you forgot to turn it off.
I had one of those radios and it was easier to program all the memories
using the computer cable and software.



"I would recommend this instead of just turning on the ctcss as this would
be
audible if you forgot to turn it off."

Bloody good ears you've got OM!


Not at all
Male hearing range is generally 20hz to 20khz
I fI turn on my ctcss on simplex people ask me what the hum is.