Thanks David. You explained this perfectly for me and I now have got the 710 working as it should. Regarding the aprs mode, I understand that I am only able to read packets but cannot transmit. The

Thanks Michael I was not aware that the 710GA had 2 serial ports. I could not find anything on the documentation about it. Although the same cable could be used for both applications, in order

Also worth noting that the same cable should work for both applications. BTW I just recently purchased a cable for my D710GA. I about to buy the Kenwood cable with the DIN connector on one end and a

Also, I think I read somewhere that the D710GA does *NOT* pass the GPS data out the connector on the head with APRS data if you are using the built-in GPS in the D710GA. For that, I think you have to

Hello Joe, The serial connection on the back of the main radio body of a D710 is for programming the memories of the radio, to be used with Echolink, and also use the

Hi I have just obtained a D710GA and am trying to use the internal tnc to do aprs. Can someone help me with how to connect the radio to the computer which runs my aprs software? I have the kenwood

Thank you. The MR scan works just great--press and hold MR, wait for the second beep, and off it goes. I did have a little trouble configuring its behavior in menu 1-9-1 because the book says pres OK,

Hopefully someone else has experience as I've never used any of the scan functions (Tone, DCS or frequency) on any of my radios. If no one rogers up I'll try to dig into the manual and see what I can

Sorry, but with all this great success, I went down yet another rabbit-hole and found one more. Sure hope it's the last! ;-) - I decided I'd try a CTCSS/DCS scan. I got it all correct but for one

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Fan-TASTIC! Thanks again! Added to my documentation! And of course,it worked as described.

Check to see if you have Digipeat turned on. In the Menu, APRS 3-K, Digipeater. If it's on, then it will digipeat heard packets of any station local to you (such as mobile passing

Steve, The buttons along the vertical sides of the control head are also context sensitive. (Except for the power button on the top right side) So, the basic state of the vertical buttons are (from

For quite a while now, I have left my TM-D700 listening to APRS, and not transmitting. Here recently, it will randomly transmit. What may be doing this? Tnx & 73, Kim

One more question. The manual says this on p37: STORING SIMPLEX FREQUENCIES OR STANDARD REPEATER FREQUENCIES 1 Select the desired band. 2 Press [VFO]. 3

Thanks so very much for this info. This is most *MOST* valuable. I actually figured it out last night, but by trial and error. That may sound silly considering all I had to do was look at

Looking at page 16 of them Manual (Page 22 of the PDF) you press the function key to change the soft key assignments of the keys along the bottom of the display. Depending on how you

Hmm, I've owned at least one of these radios for almost 20 years and never had any issue with the supplied MC-53 mics or received any bad signal reports.  (I currently have 3 in the family, one each

Sorry, my menu structure only goes to 4, and the Special Communications menu makes no mention of altering the default step size via the menu system.

The large tune button is a push button, push it and you'll change the MHz mode.