On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Harry Bloomberg wrote: > > I am able to connect to the TH-D72 using minicom and a USB cable. Would >> it >> be of any value for me to manually query the TH-D72's TNC for GPS data? I >> took a look at the Kenwood instruction set for the TNC and it was not >> obvious to me what the TNC commands would be to obtain GPS data to see why >> Xastir might think it is stale or unavailable, so I will need some help >> with >> the exact TNC instructions. >> > > I don't know what the TNC commands should be, but sending a Control-E > character from Minicom should cause the radio to dump the GPS string to you > if the TNC in the radio is set properly to capture it. > > > Thanks! This evening I'll step through the TNC commands in the startup file for the THD7 using minicom and then issue a Control-E to my TH-D72 and see what happens. 73, Harry Bloomberg W3YJ [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
