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How to make a Garmin GPS to Kenwood TH-D7A Interface Cable for APRS.
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News: Feb 2007, Jason is making a lot of cool things using our plugs and cable parts, including cables to connect your Garmin to a Kenwood radio: RPC-Electronics.com check it out.
Garmin GPS <---------------------- > Kenwood TH-D7A Transceiver. ========= ============= GPS out (T) ---(brown)-------> RING of a 2.5mm stereo phono plug GPS in (R) ----(white) -------< TIP ( used only by a few Garmin models) GPS gnd (-) ----(black)------- Sleeve AKA base. GPS pwr (+) ---- (red) ------- not used
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The wire colors used by Pfranc.com cables.
VE3GNN said 4 feet is a good length.
Mark helped me discover that you MUST set your Garmin to use NMEA protocol (not the defalut). In that mode, the GPS will stream data out at 4800 baud. Here's a cool web page about a Palm-top Packet System thanks to Mike N8RGC. You can also convert our combo or Max cables to provide both power and THD-7 data to your Garmin. And because we include the data wires in all our power cables, you can actually convert any of our power cables to supply data too. Simply open up the Cigarette lighter plug housing and splice in a data cable. (added October 2006) Here's a link to a very cool page about using a Garmin GPS and Pfranc plugs and cables to power and connect a Kenwood TH-D7 radio for doing APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) --- thanks Chris Kantarjiev! Chris helps you with APRS here |
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