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I use APRSISCE rather than the obsolete UI-View but I just hooked my newly arrived D72 to it using the same configuration I use with my D710 (just changed the com port) and it worked fine. The D72 has an option that appears to allow the GPS data to appear on the com port as well. I have never...

You could use the N2YO website. Then there is no need to install anything. You can create bookmarks that go straight to the predictions for the satellite you are interested in.

Sell the two radios and buy a Kenwood TM-D710. That will do APRS and "regular" ham radio in the one box, using one antenna.

You don't need to press the Mode button to advance to the next character positoin unless the next character is on the same key as the first one. I admit, predictive text would have been a nice addition to the radio. The main problem with APRS messaging is it only works if you are in radio...

As one of the "fanatics" who defended the use of the RS-232 connection on the Elecraft list I have to say that I think the suggestions that the K3 should have a USB port are narrow minded. The USB is a consumer interface intended for devices designed specifically to use with a PC. RS-232 is a...

Here is a free HF propagation program that is really free. I think those other posts were just link spam. But if you ask me, all propagation programs are basically rubbish. You can't forecast propagation just by inputting a couple of solar numbers. I think propagation programs are useful to...

You can run droid on a touch pro? Wish I was clever enough to do stuff like that. If I tried I'd probably end up bricking it. Mind you, the main reason I got a WM phone was to run APRSISCE which is streets ahead of the APRS app for droid, so I'm told.

Having also built a K3 I have to jump in and say, how the heck do you engineer a kit against someone using the wrong screws, any more than soldering a diode in backwards? The stand assembly isn't made specially for Elecraft so they can't make it to use a different type of screw than everything...

Very frustrating. I built my K3, one of the early ones, serial number 222. I'm glad to say I didn't have a problem like that. Guess you were just unlucky. Sending it back from the UK would have been problematic. The only problem I had was the screen behind the front panel didn't have a hole...

Same here. OpenDNS reports: Nameserver trace for forums.qrz.com: * Looking for who is responsible for root zone and followed a.root-servers.net. * Looking for who is responsible for com and followed k.gtld-servers.net. * Looking for who is responsible for qrz.com and followed...

Can anyone say from experience whether the AGWPE sound card packet modem on 300baud HF packet performs better than one of the modern DSP based TNCs such as the SCS Tracker/DSP TNC?

You should check out APRSISCE/32. Since you mentioned Xastir, you might be using Linux. This is a Windows program, however it seems to run pretty well under wine.

You can get a drop-in charger for the TH-F6 from WW Manufacturing. Trouble is, you also have to buy a new battery pack from them as well because the Kenwood one doesn't have the contacts for the drop-in charger, so it works out quite expensive.