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I am trying to decide between the VX-8GR and the TH-D72. For my application I am mainly using it to track high altitude balloons using APRS and we fly a crosband repeater on our balloon. My dream come true would be a single radio that can talk through the crosband while tracking the balloon and...

So on page 157 of the VX-8GR operators manual it shows a serial port cable with the same pin out as the cables used on Kenwood radios. It states that the port can be set to "Output Waypoint data of received APRS beacon" and it shows a picture of the radio being plugged into a Laptop. Has...

So it has good full duplex cross band operation but no ability to become a hand held cross band repeater?

When they say "meets or exceeds the US MIL-STD standards for rain, humidity, vibration and shock." I wonder if these were actually tested by an actual outside source or if they just designed to target those standards.

As for weather proofing it is claimed to be, MIL-STD810 and IP54 weatherproofing. IP First number - Protection against solid objects 0 No special protection 1 Protected against solid objects up to 50 mm, e.g. accidental touch by persons hands. 2 Protected against solid objects up to 12...

Has Kenwood released the programing software yet? Is there any other manuals or documentation that came with it other than that was posted here on the Forum? Thanks, I am anxiously awaiting your review. Edit: I found the software here...

looks very nice. I still have one big gripe with Kenwood that aparently has not been solved in this radio and that is not being able to save a cross band odd split memory channel. It is a headache using a Kenwood on a cross band repeater. That is one thing Yaesu has had right for a long...

Good news, one step closer to this long awaited radio being available for sale. Think they will be available before the end of the year?

The ADI AT-600 will also cross-band. I have several of these HTs and they work good, the only down side is they will not do CTCSS decode and encode at the same time. So if you are using it to access a repeater you will not be able to set up a receive code on the cross band to limit who can...

I have both as well. I will second that I like that the volume locks so that it doesn't get turned down when it rubs against something. Two other things that I like on the VX3 over the VX2 is that when on a memory channel that is displaying the name you can press the monitor button and when the...

Not to mention the 8900 doesn't have the memory management (memory banks) of the 8800 which I find very useful on a radio with hundreds of memory channels. I can bank channels of interest together so that I can scan what interests me at the moment. I have a bank for ham repeaters, simplex freqs...

I like the GR features of using a more standard (Yaesu) 3.5mm 4 ring speaker mike/head set plug. It also has a serial port (via a 3.5mm 3 ring jack on the side) for spiting out received packets so that you can actually do something with the received information other than looking at it on the...

I know someone who purchased both the VHF & UHF versions of this exact model on ebay. It has been a while since I played with them but what I remember is they have some strange characteristic like no DTMF tones despite having a key pad. The SMA antenna connector is the wrong gender, the radio...

I find it a glaring omission on a radio with 1000 memory channels to not have such a feature. This has been one of my most useful features on my past Yaesu radios. Do you think there is any chance the radio has memory banks but it is not documented in the manual and has yet to be figured out?

I had seen that thread and with it requiring 9600 baud TTL level connection to a very small ribbon cable it kinda makes it difficult. If you could plug in any standard (NMEA 4800 baud serial level) GPS to the serial port it would make it much easier to set up. Just curious.

Out of curiosity do you think you could set the port to GPS 4800 without having the add on GPS installed and input standard 4800 NMEA sentences to the port and have the radio use this for GPS location? I guess what I am getting at is could this be a way to hook up a standard GPS without having...

I know on my Kenwood D-700 and I would asume also on the new D-710 you can type on the number keys similar to texting but no T9, for instance you would have to hit the 7 key 3 times to get an R.

Great thanks, That made it to you faster than I was anticipating. what was the port baud rate and is it selectable? If you output GPS data is it 4800 NMEA? I will admit I know much less about all this than I would like but on a TNC you just send serial data in to it and it should key the...

My micro controller programing Fu is weak but I enjoy playing with them and learning new things. I probably would have to learn a lot more about the APRS protocol as well. Now, if I only had unlimited time?

Since I am very curious about using the internal TNC with a PC based APRS software package I decided I to make Moleculo a 8 pin mini-din to DB-9 cable so that he can get us more detailed information on this aspect of the FTM-350 capability's. He should get it in the mail in a few days...