[aprssig] Help setting up Kenwood D700A

[Doug Ferrell]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Scott Miller wrote:

> I understand there are other mailing lists out there - what I want to know 
> is if Kenwood provides support.  If you email them and say 'why doesn't this 
> work with my GPS?' will they actually respond?

   Probably so... I haven't had to call Kenwood for any help on mine. The
D700 manual has detailed instruction on how to hook up the GPS and as long
as it puts out NMEA @ 4800, it should work. I know that they probably
won't help you with any APRS clients programs!

	I think most problems now are there are so many different GPS' on
the market (with DB9's etc) that its making hooking up harder. Also
Trimble 450's have a Config program that you have to run to get NMEA

   All the Garmins I have hooked up (II,II+,III,III+,GPS120), the data
cables were bare when made installation a snap. And really all you need is
the ground and TX from the GPS is you don't want all those waypoints
flooding back to your GPS. I had that problem with the Garmins... getting
the data FROM the D700 populating my waypoints in the GPS.

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...DOUG
KD4MOJ