More information on a TM-V71E?
- Posted by David at 14:02:55
- Ham Radio, Transmitters, Receivers, Modifications
Current mood: 
In the search of a good, cheap, modern, flexible and well performing dual band rig with two receivers in, my choice fell onto the Kenwood TM-V71E after having looked on what “the three big companies” had to offer.
Only the Yaesu FT-8800 was a resonable alternative actually. But it doesn’t have backlit buttons, and the memory management isn’t as flexible. For better memory management I’d have to get the even older FT-8900 for more bucks. And Icom®… wayyyy too expensive!
Of course there are also some other interesting, more technical aspects involved… so hold your solder irons gentlemen
A nice and friendly chap called A Nony Mous has kindly enough supplied some very useful information to the US site repeater-builder.com, and I just can’t resist to share it further
It’s always nice being able to read some real technical information about a rig, before buying it, as that makes it possible to choose the construction that fits best. My guess is that most companies doesn’t like the availability of such information freely on the web as their sellers cant argument with the potential buyer then
Well I did my reading up on the different rigs and must say that Kenwood has done an absolute well thought build with this one. And they have even cared to mark out what most other companies hides
Yes as you can guess, I’m not satisfied with my TM-V71E being a C2 model… And now, after some warm minutes, it’s a C3 instead, it was actually pretty easy to fix.
Okays, standard disclaimer:
NOW DON’T USE THIS INFORMATION UNRESPONSIBLY! As always I share it because I believe that the radios capabilities should be avaliable fully, and not restricted so that the responsibility for the usage is on the operator and not decided for her/him by someone else.
So here is the info that WA6ILQ kindly (thanks to A Nony Mous) has put on the web. What I like the most is that the output graphs is included in the end, that’s the way to go! Yay for technical information!
TM-V71A/E Modification Procedures (M4/E Type)