[FADCA] 9k6 radios

[Freeman Crosby]

Hi All,

About 1995 I bought a Kenwood TM451A and a Kantronics 9612 TNC, I also 
sprung for the cable Kenwood had to connect the two together. I put the 
Kenwood on 446.050 turned on the TNC in Kiss mode and it has functioned 
ever since. Never did align it, set levels or change frequency.
The real shame is the radio has so many nice features which I do not use, 
In fact the mike is still in the little plastic bag it came in. Hopefully 
they now make one aimed at digital use.

Recently I bought an Alinco DR 135 with a built in TNC, 50 watt 2 meter 
radio to use as an APRS beacon.
The radio is great but APRS is about all that TNC is good for, I don't see 
any Kiss mode option at all in the command list.

The radio does have provisions to run an external 9600 baud TNC and has 
data In & Out on the DB-9 connector on the back when the internal TNC is 
not installed. It seems if one is installed then the connector is a 
standard RS-232  serial port for the computer connection only.

The Alinco DR-435 uses the same manual and I'd be glad to provide whatever 
information anyone wants from it for either the 2m 220 or 440 version.

The manual says the internal TNC  will run both 1200/9600 baud but I was 
unaware of that when I bought it.

73/Free
W1NPR


At 10:39 AM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>After looking at some of the material Russ sent me, I started
>looking at the fine print (some like Alinco and Kenwood make
>more to do about it) I see that Alinco, Kenwood and Yaesue are
>making radios that have a connector on the back which is supposed
>to handle 9k6 packet data.


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