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Kevin & Natalia wrote:

| 1. What I have done is program the first 100 memories with VHF, and
| second 100 with UHF.

Wow. Are there really that many interesting things around you?

Kenwood's site has a program to download that can program the memories
from your computer. Hopefully you're already using it

| However when I step through the memories on
| either band, it goes through the whole 200. So if I am on VHF, it
| will also show the UHF memories as well. (The only ones the VHF
| won't show are those above 1Ghz, as the display won't go that high,
| RX only on the UHF side).

There's two scanning modes -- scan all non-locked-out memories, or
scan just the local 20 memories -- 0-19,20-39,40-59,etc.

Pressing and holding MR scans all memories.

Pressing and holding the frequency dial in for a second scans only the
20 memories as I mentioned earlier.

If you're just turning the dial or hitting UP or DOWN on the keypad, I
don't think it ever limits itself to just 20 memories. Only when
scanning.

| The manual does not say anything about this, or that any memory can be
| accessed from either band.

Yes, it does. It's not entirely clear, but it _is_ there.

Any memory position can be accessed by either side, but the left side
can't go over 460 mHz or so and the right side can't go under 144 mHz
or so, so if you've got one of these frequencies in one of these
memory positions, it'll just silently skip over it. And if you're
receiving VHF on the right side, you can't listen to either VHF or UHF
(I forget which) on the left side, something like that. (I'm going
from memory here.)

It's very odd how the RX functions all work. I've ended up putting
the left side on the APRS channel, and do everything else on the right
side. This works for most things, but I can't listen to aircraft
radios (118-136 mHz, AM) on the right side. It's sort of
dissappointing, though I guess it's meant as an amateur radio
transceiver, not a scanner.

I don't know if any of this is affected by opening up the RX or TX
ranges.

| 2. As for the TNC feature, can anyone suggest a good program to use with the
| built-in TNC????

Personally I use minicom or kermit for my packet stuff, but I doubt
that's what you're looking for.

| If anyone can help with any information, I'd be grateful, either send it to
| this group, or directly to my home e-mail.
| If anyone has any information on how to open the 900Mhz blocked portion on
| the US model, I'd like to know, this blocked area, is part of our (ZL) band
| plan.

Got me.

Since we're talking about the D700A, another thing that dissappoints
me about the radio is the limited APRS functionality.

Sure, it can broadcast my position every X minutes. How about doing
it more often when I'm going fast, and less often when I'm slow?
(`Smart beaconing', though smart beaconing also takes into account
turning. Even the tinytrak3 can do this.)

How about a display where I can see the other hams near me, rather
than making me scroll through a list of the 30 most recently seen hams
and looking at each info page individually? Sure, I can limit what it
sees to X miles, but that's not the same.

How about telling me when a ham gets within one mile of me?

Ultimately, if you want all this stuff, you need to add a computer
running a full featured APRS program. The stuff that's built in is
very basic -- unnessesarily so, if you ask me. It's too bad that they
don't offer some of this stuff in a firmware upgrade ...

I like my D700A, don't get me wrong. But it's not perfect.

--
Doug McLaren,
I haven't lost my mind -- I know exactly where I left it.