[Xastir] Xastir 2.0.1, OS X 10.6.5 and Kenwood THD72A

[Jason Rausch]

Just a rough guess, but is the radio in TNC mode and not APRS mode?  The reason I ask this is because this was a common mistake made with the original D7.  Most people thought the radio had to be in APRS mode to access the TNC externally, when it reality you wanted APRS disabled and just access the TNC function as though it was an external TNC tied to the radio.

If you are seeing APRS activity on the LCD of the radio and you do not see any packets through the USB port, I would suspect the above is the case.

Jason Rausch - KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Javier Henderson <javier at cisco.com> wrote:

> From: Javier Henderson <javier at cisco.com>
> Subject: [Xastir] Xastir 2.0.1, OS X 10.6.5 and Kenwood THD72A
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 8:58 PM
> I can't get this combo to work.
> 
> With the radio plugged via USB into the computer, after
> loading the device drivers from http://silabs.com/, I can see output on
> ZTerm when packets are heard.
> 
> The devices created are /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART and
> /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART
> 
> I added a serial KISS TNC using /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART, I
> can start the interface and status is UP, and I see Xastir
> sending data to the radio (at least it's logged in the
> tnc.log file) but nothing is transmitted.
> 
> When packets are heard nothing is written to the log file,
> though the display on the radio shows the message or
> position report, etc.
> 
> Not sure where to go from here. I never used a TNC with
> Xastir, just Internet interfaces.
> 
> 73,
> -jav w6vms
> 
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