Sky Command

[EDUK8TR]

Greetings!

I Finally set up my TH-D72A up with Sky Command. It took a little
while to familiarize myself with the workings but I got the general things down. After I got my TS-2000 set up I decided to get in my truck and drive away from my home and see what kind of range I could get. I drove around town and called on 28.610 where some of my local ham buddies hang out. I roused the attention of N3BA, Bob, and we got involved in a QSO dealing with the Sky Command features. Bob indicated that the hand held sounded good and that he too had played around with this on his set up. I pulled into a parking lot about 4 miles from my station and continued the QSO. At that point another Ham gave his call. VK7XX, John, on the island of Tasmania. Imagine having a QSO with a VK station from Virginia on a handheld! Well, a handheld controlling my TS-2000 back at home
with 100 watts and the Hex beam pointed NE(where I had left it pointed when I left) which made the contact also long path. The wonders of Kenwood technology.
That was really fun.


73

Wayne C.
WV4L

 

[Moleculo]

Cool story! I'm glad you like the setup. Is the procedure difficult to change HF frequencies from the HT?

 

[EDUK8TR]

Cool story! I'm glad you like the setup. Is the procedure difficult to change HF frequencies from the HT?

I found that the easiest way to change freq is via direct entry via the keypad and hit the ent. Button. Once you do that the HT sends the data and the 2000 responds with the new freq which is shown on the HT display.