[gpsd-users] Ideas for Kenwood D700 Radio Support

[IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

List Members,

I own a Kenwood D700 Amateur Radio that I have not blown the dust off  
of and used in quite some time. It is an "APRS radio", meaning it has  
a port on it that can have a GPS plugged into it. Once the GPS is  
plugged into the radio it queries the GPS for particular NMEA strings  
and uses them to transmit my location to other Amateur Radio Operators  
and displays some info on the LCD too.

I am not sure if the Earthmate Hyperformance is compatible with the  
D700 yet (I have to research it). But, if the Earthmate Hyperformance  
is not (due its binary mode), then I'd like to consider how hard it  
might be to get gpsd to accept commands via a serial port and answer  
back with the proper NMEA strings it gets from the Earthmate.

http://www.kenwoodusa.com/Communications/Amateur_Radio/Amateur_Radio_Retired/TM-D700A

This link also (if you click "downloads") indicates their ways of  
interfacing to the radio. I plan to reacquaint myself with it this  
evening.

Ideas?


V/R and 73,

Stuart, N3GWG


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