[Xastir] TH-D72A with Internal GPS working with Xastir

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:41 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> 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