[Xastir] Setup with a Kenwood TM-D710A

[Alan Crosswell]

I have a 710 and it's substantially the same. Let me know if you need me to
try something. I don't usually run it with Xastir & GPS as its in my
vehicle but can if you want me to.
73
/a


On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 05:17:18PM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <edodd at billiau.net> flavor, containing:
> > I think I've got radio / computer communication, with some packets
> > logged on the TNC and some on the interface.
> > However, my GPS connection through the radio is a failure.
> > Can someone summarise for me
> > 1 how I should set the radio for GPS > Xastir
> > 2 what the startup config should be for GPS > Xastir
>
> You should be using tnc-startup.d72_d710
>
> You should use "Serial TNC with GPS on AUX port" as your interface type.
>
> If you are using Xastir from CVS, then make sure in the interface
> properties
> that "Send Control-E to get GPS data" is not checked
> (this is a new thing that wasn't in Xastir 2.0.0, and is checked by
> default).
>
> I am not aware of any differences between the D700 and D710 that should
> get in the way of using it with Xastir, but I only have a D700.  There may
> be gotchas that only a D710 user can help you with.
>
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