Hello Joe, Ok.. that's the two common ways APRS programs can interact with the D710 TNC. I have read some programs attempt to toggle the D710 from APRS12 mode to PACKET12 to transmit a UI packet and t

Hello Joe, The APRS12 mode on a D710 can definitely transmit but only the TNC will create the required packets for position, objects, and even be a digipeater. If you're looking for your computer-base

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 working-but-not-Kenwood-supported

If you connect to the TNC via the COMMAND interface, can you successfully transmit a BEACON or other packet? --David KI6ZHD

The D710A does G3RUH 9600bps packet just fine --David KI6ZHD

Hello Mike, I think we have a one in a million chance of seeing Kenwood add new protocol support like AX.25 v2.2 and FX.25 support. Btw.. in addition to Direwolf supporting both of these new technolog

Interesting... I have something similar but not exactly what you have: On VFO-A (the left vfo), I have the TNC in KISS mode On VFO-B (the right vfo), I have the VFO in memory mode If I put VFO-B into

Hello Burt, When you see strings like: -- $GPGGA,222241.50,2721.47405,N,08229.63963,W,1,06,2.04,9.2,M,-27.1,M,,*60 -- you're seeing the GPS data string. On the D74, you can turn this off by going into

Hello Joe, When you say you installed the driver that came with the USB cables, are you sure you're using it? Newer versions of Windows allow multiple drivers to be installed and you select which one

Check your USB to serial adapter's drivers. You might be a victim of a counterfit Prolific chip but work arounds are available: http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php --David KI6ZHD

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Hello Roy, Ok.. seems the G is quite different than the A at least in configuration. I guess the next step would be to upgrade the radio to the current firmware to see if that helps. Beyond that, I'd

Hello Roy, Just thinking outside of the box here but what do you have configured on the D710 head itself: - 105 (S-meter squelch) : should be OFF - 403 (voice repeater mode) - 517 (voice cross band) -

Hello Roy, I got this one though. I had misread the line "What I have to do to FORCE the transmit is to tune the Rx band down 5 to 10 kHz so that the TNC no longer sees packets - then there will be a

Hello Roy, What frequencies are you using on Band-A and Band-B? They will need to be on different bands to work. Not sure why you would want to do that. Just let the TNC see and ignore all those packe

Hello Bob, I'm aware of a one project that figured out aspects of the D700: - W2FS Keyboard interface for Kenwood Tm-d700a : (EOLed) - www.rhuss.cncfamily.com/D700_Manual.pdf - There is also the Remot

Hello Pat, The radio body to D710 head connection is an RJ45 connector. The radio body to microphone is also an RJ45 connection. With that said, the cables themselves are special shielded cables to av

The main question with this specific GPS accessory is: - Confirm if the actual GPS receiver is serial based (pretty common) or native USB in it's internals? If serial, where is the serial to USB conve

I've heard that once the internal battery in the D700/D710 head goes bad, the radio will continue to malfunction and the battery will NOT take a charge. You'll need to open up the head and replace the

Hello Burt, For your D710 issue, this could be a power problem but maybe also SWR.� I would first try lowering the RF power on the TNC side and see if running on lower power levels lets you beacon (