[Xastir] Help with TH-D72

[Alex Carver]

--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Harry Bloomberg 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?


If they implemented the same thing as they did in the D7 and D700 then yes, you should see whatever you configured for GPSHEAD show up in the data stream coming from the main serial port for the TNC.