[SMCARA] Kenwood D-Star Rig

[A.J. Farmer (AJ3U)]

Kenwood is entering the D-Star fray!  This is great news.  Hopefully
it will bring the prices down.

Apparently the TMW-706 / TMW-706S is a "D-Star Lite" radio - the
low-speed interleaved digital voice / data system operating on 144 MHz
and 440 MHz that Icom is now emphasizing instead of the original 1.2
GHz 128 Kbps version of D-Star.

Here are pictures:

http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/tmw706.htm
http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/tmw706s.htm

Here is a Google "Engrish" translation of the Japanese press release:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.kenwood.com/newsrelease/2007/20070628.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsite:www.kenwood.com%2Bd-star%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DG


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A.J. Farmer, AJ3U
http://www.aj3u.com