new kenwood ts480 voip internet ready

anyone using one of these radios?

if so do you have it connected to the internet?

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/info/amateur/ts_480/

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/in...etwork_command.
html

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/in...age/A480101.ex
e
73 Ian G3ZHI

http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi - many ham radio links
http://www.ukirlp.co.uk

G4NJI IRLP 5200 Echolink 135909
Rotherham simplex 145.2875mhz

GB3XN IRLP 5708 Echolink 153126
Langold 430.925 Mhz

Ian Abel G3ZHI
52 Hollytree Ave
Maltby
Rotherham
Yorkshire
S66 8DY

Tel: 01709 799911
Mobile 0783 338 0578

Actually that's a little misleading. The RADIO isn't really any more
"internet ready" than any other Kenwood (or Icom, or Yaesu) HF
radio. The two computers necessary to make it play are "internet
ready" but the radio isn't anything special.

The trick is the software (which is apparently written only
for this particular radio). The software is just an audio stream and
a CAT control stream. That's been done with a bunch of radios and
different software. The software makes it "internet ready".....

We used an FT-920:

http://kh2d.net/kh7r/

If you are thinking about getting the TS480, I'd suggest you take a
real hard look at the software and make sure it does everything you
think you'll need to do.

Amazing that Kenwood would go to the trouble to write control software
that only works with one radio. All the Kenwood rigs I've every played
with CAT software have a very similar CAT interface, so the software
might even work with other Kenwood radios, unless they made the
mistake of reinventing the CAT interface for this one radio - which is

a stupid pet trick that Yaesu is famous for.....

73, Jim KH2D



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:57:30 +0000 (UTC), (g3zhi)
wrote:

new kenwood ts480 voip internet ready

anyone using one of these radios?

if so do you have it connected to the internet?

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/info/amateur/ts_480/

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/in...etwork_command.
html

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/in...age/A480101.ex
e
73 Ian G3ZHI

http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi - many ham radio links
http://www.ukirlp.co.uk

G4NJI IRLP 5200 Echolink 135909
Rotherham simplex 145.2875mhz

GB3XN IRLP 5708 Echolink 153126
Langold 430.925 Mhz

Ian Abel G3ZHI
52 Hollytree Ave
Maltby
Rotherham
Yorkshire
S66 8DY

Tel: 01709 799911
Mobile 0783 338 0578

Actually that's a little misleading. The RADIO isn't really any more
"internet ready" than any other Kenwood (or Icom, or Yaesu) HF
radio. The two computers necessary to make it play are "internet
ready" but the radio isn't anything special.

The trick is the software (which is apparently written only
for this particular radio). The software is just an audio stream and
a CAT control stream. That's been done with a bunch of radios and
different software. The software makes it "internet ready".....

We used an FT-920:

http://kh2d.net/kh7r/

If you are thinking about getting the TS480, I'd suggest you take a
real hard look at the software and make sure it does everything you
think you'll need to do.

Amazing that Kenwood would go to the trouble to write control software
that only works with one radio. All the Kenwood rigs I've every played
with CAT software have a very similar CAT interface, so the software
might even work with other Kenwood radios, unless they made the
mistake of reinventing the CAT interface for this one radio - which is

a stupid pet trick that Yaesu is famous for.....

73, Jim KH2D



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:57:30 +0000 (UTC), (g3zhi)
wrote:

new kenwood ts480 voip internet ready

anyone using one of these radios?

if so do you have it connected to the internet?

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/info/amateur/ts_480/

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/in...etwork_command.
html

http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/in...age/A480101.ex
e
73 Ian G3ZHI

http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi - many ham radio links
http://www.ukirlp.co.uk

G4NJI IRLP 5200 Echolink 135909
Rotherham simplex 145.2875mhz

GB3XN IRLP 5708 Echolink 153126
Langold 430.925 Mhz

Ian Abel G3ZHI
52 Hollytree Ave
Maltby
Rotherham
Yorkshire
S66 8DY

Tel: 01709 799911
Mobile 0783 338 0578