Meanbiker, fake Kenwoods beleive what you will but Kenwood do not support the model and do NOT make the model if you do not beleive me phone Kenwood direct yourself! If the TK3207 was a REAL Kenwood why are there a lot of court orders going out to the people selling them for copyright etc.
Rich you may well be right but my search didn't find this. It did find that the Programming Software KPG-87D from Kenwood works with it thus solving the reported preprogramming problems.
Luke, to keep within the PMR law the transceivers need to be ran on a 0.5 watt and running external aeriels will seem like you are wanting to boost your signal. If the Police see you they will have you. Most PMR radios have fixed aerials, a real Kenwood will not allow a seperate aerial to be used. If you remove the aerial the chances are you will break the radio itself
The current UK regulations stipulate 500mW and a FIXED aerial so as not to cause interference to adjacent channel users. Increasing your Effective Radiated Power through increasing either the power output of the radio or having a better antenna with a higher gain inevitably increases your transmitted bandwidth. The channel spacing on PMR446 is 6.25Khz, i.e. very close and thus regardless of your CTCSS / Tone Squelch settings, higher power will undoubtedly cause interference to others at times.
......... on the other hand, if you are up in the lake district miles from others, other than your friends bike, it is a little better than the line of sight that PMR446 usually gives you.
In so far as the Police are concerned, I would say 99% of them don't know what PMR446 is, would probably think it was some form of CB and wouldn't know what legislation, if any, applied. The likelyhood is you would be sent on your way.
The majority of Kenwood Transceivers in the real world of radio do come with detatchable aerials and it is only the PMR446 legislation that is making them produce radios with fixed aerials. It is likely that someone will successfully mod the TK-3201 in the future, but I wouldn't suggest you start disconnecting a fixed aerial unless you know what you are doing.
I'd still be interested to know what's the maximum curent the Autocom will provide
