[Xastir] Help with TH-D72

[Harry Bloomberg]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Yeah, Kenwood decided to echo as soon as the sentence shows up so there's
> no Control-E operation at all.  It just pops out of the serial port.  I got
> my poor D700 confused one day with that little "$" experiment.  It just
> couldn't keep up with my Garmin 12XL which is transmitting five sentences
> per second.  The main problem was the system was trying to keep up with two
> data streams at once (the APRS data coming in plus the GPS data) and the
> bandwidth was just too low for that.
>
> Now if everything could have run at 115200 baud with a huge GPS buffer and
> some more processor power it probably wouldn't have been much of a problem.
>  Save a second worth of GPS data and then blast it out at high speed.
>
>
So, back to my idea of testing my TH-D72 with minicom...if I manually do the
steps in the THD7 startup script, I should be seeing GPS data appearing
periodically in my terminal window without me having to enter Control-E?

73,
Harry Bloomberg W3YJ
hbloomb at gmail.com