[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] DSTAR on the Kenwood TH-D74A

[Ian]

The Diamond SRH320A or the Comet equivalent are great aftermarket
antennas.  Transmits on all 3 bands plus wideband receive to 900MHz or
better.
73, Ian N8IK


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:30 PM, <charliecas at aol.com> wrote:

> That's a great idea.  Found any great antennas for it yet?  I usually have
> my D74A on out in western Springfield scanning 140 phone and don't pick up
> much....
>
> Charlie K3CLC
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian <iann8ik at gmail.com>
> To: W4HFH <alexandriaradioclub at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wed, May 23, 2018 2:40 pm
> Subject: Re: [Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] DSTAR on the Kenwood TH-D74A
>
> Forgot to mention: built-in TNC and GPS so it's great for APRS or portable
> packet. A short coax jumper to a Mirage BD-35 amplifier,
> http://www.mirageamp.com/Product.php?productid=BD-35, and you have a 40W
> 2m/70cm mobile!
> 73, Ian N8IK
>
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Ian <iann8ik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A growing number of us have the recently introduced Kenwood TH-D74A
> > handheld. 2m, 70cm, and 1.25m on FM and DSTAR. 5W on all bands! And
> > Batteries America, maybe others, now have a 2000mAh aftermarket battery
> for
> > around $50. The radio worked great at Hamvention this year AFTER we
> > discovered a few tricks.
> >
> > Unlike Icom's implementation of DSTAR, Kenwood makes a distinction in the
> > operating mode. If you're going through a repeater the mode is DR, for
> > simplex it's DV. If you are using Kenwood's or RTSystems' software to
> > program your radio watch for this in the 'mode' drop-down list. You may
> > have to scroll down to get to 'DV' for simplex channels. The other
> > difference is with digital coded squelch. This is used like a tone on FM.
> > On the Kenwood you'll usually want 'DCS', not 'CCS'. The RTSystems
> > software appears to default to 'CCS', or callsign coded squelch, and
> > wouldn't be too useful on a frequency used by more than two hams.
> >
> > Also, I was able to route back to W4HFH_B through BridgeCom's 1.25m dual
> > mode repeater. Pretty cool.
> >
> > 73, Ian N8IK
> >
> >
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