[Xastir] Help with TH-D72

[Harry Bloomberg]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 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
hbloomb at gmail.com