[aprssig] VX-8 and Computer

[Brian B. Riley]

nope, no access to the internal tnc. You might engineer a kluge to tap  
the stream coming from the GPS, but it would be exactly that, a kluge!  
Think of the VX8 as a sealed appliance.

On Sep 5, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Arte Booten wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>     Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any way of using the  
> Yaesu VX-8R
> as a mobile APRS radio while running UI-View.  Either the GPS module  
> itself or
> the speaker/mic would be connected to the connector atop the radio,  
> leaving no
> place to connect it to a serial port.
>
>     However,  it seems the connector has far more pins than are  
> being used by
> either of those objects.  No doubt Vertex-Standard uses the VX-8's  
> platform in
> the same way it uses the VX-7/VX-150/etc. for different services,   
> so I wonder
> if, in some other iteration, the VX-8 can utilize those pins   
> (presumably with
> an adapter) that would allow serial connection along with GPS and  
> speaker-mic.
> -- 



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