[aprssig] APRS / SkyCommand Progress Since and Tips

[WD8ARZ]

It isnt the APRS baud rate that is the issue. It is the serial cable 
between the dual bander and the hf rig.

  Kenwood was way to shy on providing complete workable instructions for 
the first time user to setup and get working SkyCommand .... especially 
the difference in setup between different radios and the differences in 
the keypad operation of SkyCommand.

A null modem serial cable is connected between the db9 connector on the 
TS-480 and the TMD700A / TMD710A. This is where the lack of info and 
incorrect info for the baud rate settings keep most folks from getting 
past the initial sync of the dual bander to the TS-480. Until you get 
that sync, not nothing else is going to happen with SkyCommand.

Try it out, its fun.

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ

On 10/28/2013 2:22 PM, Steve Noskowicz wrote:
> Bill,
>   I haven't done SkyCommand yet, but it seems that the 
> data-rate-same should refer to the APRS (command and control) data 
> rate, right?  This makes sense.  The radios' serial port data rate 
> shouldn't come into play if I understand this.
> -- 
> 73, Steve, K9DCI
>
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