On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:41 PM, John Goerzen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've lately been trying to get Xastir working with my TH-D72 and its > internal GPS. Googling showed me a lot of discussions on the topic, and in > particular, this one: > > http://lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir/2011-July/020149.html > > in which it was thought that the "D72 cannot stream NMEA sentences from the > internal GPS in any mode that also allows Xastir to use the TNC." > > I appear to have taken that as a challenge and figured out how to do it ;-) > > I am not at all surprised at the above conclusion; Kenwood's documentation, > though perhaps far more complete than their competitors, is still terribly > sparse when it comes to the TNC functions of the D72A. > > I have documented how I managed to get this working over here: > > http://wiki.complete.org/THD72PCAPRS > > It also explains what a lot of trial and error has shown to be the > difference between the D72's APRS mode and its PACKET mode with respect to > hooking up Xastir. > > Hope it is helpful to someone. > > I thank everyone that has contributed on this list for the background info, > and in particular Kai Günter Brandt's D710 setup scripts which I was able to > lightly modify for the D72A. His info was at > http://lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir/2011-July/020111.html in case > anyone needs to find it.
Just a suggestion for the wiki referenced above - it doesn't say which type of interface to create in Xastir. I thought I read on the APRSIS32 list a while back that people were using that software with the THD72A and getting the GPS data, but I didn't pay close attention to the details 'cause I don't have a D72A. Lee - K5DAT _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
