Kenwood TM-D710GE- Manuals

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REPEATER-1 REPEATER ACCESS Most repeaters use a receive and transmit frequency pair with a standard or non-standard offset (odd-split). In addition, some repeaters must receive a tone from the transceiver in order to gain access to the repeater. For details, consult your local repeater reference. ■ ...

REPEATER-2 ■ Selecting a Tone Frequency To select the tone frequency required to access your desired repeater: 1 Turn the Tone function ON. 2 Press [F], [T.SEL] . • The current tone frequency appears on the display. The default frequency is 88.5 Hz. 3 Rotate the Tuning control to select your desired...

REPEATER-3 TRANSMITTING A 1750 Hz TONE Most repeaters in Europe require that a transceiver transmit a 1750 Hz tone. On a E type model, simply pressing Microphone [CALL] causes it to transmit a 1750 Hz tone. It is also possible to program [1750] on the front panel as a PF key for transmitting a 1750 ...

MEMORY CH-1 MEMORY CHANNELS In Memory channels, you can store frequencies and related data that you often use. Then you need not reprogram the data every time. You can quickly recall a programmed channel by simple operation. A total of 1000 Memory channels are available for bands A and B. SIMPLEX &a...

MEMORY CH-2 STORING ODD-SPLIT REPEATER FREQUENCIES Some repeaters use a receive and transmit frequency pair with a non-standard offset. To access those repeaters, store two separate frequencies in a memory channel. You can then operate on those repeaters without changing the offset frequency you sto...

MEMORY CH-3 NAMING A MEMORY CHANNEL You can name Memory channels using up to 8 characters. When you recall a named Memory channel, its name appears on the display. Names can be callsigns, repeater names, cities, people, etc. 1 Press [MR] to enter Memory Recall mode. 2 Rotate the Tuning control to se...

PM-1 PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY (PM) Programmable Memory (PM) stores virtually all settings currently set on the transceiver. This transceiver provides 5 PM channels to store 5 sets of transceiver confi gurations. Later, you can quickly recall any one of these channels, depending on the operations you have...

PM-2 PM CHANNEL RESET To reset the PM channels to their default settings: 1 Turn the transceiver power OFF. 2 Press [F] + Power ON . 3 Release [F] . 4 Rotate the Tuning control and select PM RESET. 5 Press the Tuning control. • A confi rmation message appears on the display. 6 Press the Tuning contr...

SCAN Scan is a useful feature for hands-off monitoring of your favorite frequencies. Becoming comfortable with all types of Scan will increase your operating effi ciency. This transceiver provides the following types of scans: Scan Type Scan Range VFO Scan Scans all frequencies on the current band. ...

SCAN-2 VFO SCAN VFO Scan monitors all frequencies tunable on the band, using the current frequency step size. 1 Select your desired band. 2 Press [VFO] (1s) . • Scan starts at the current frequency. • The 1 MHz decimal blinks while scanning is in progress. • To reverse the scan direction, turn the T...

SCAN-3 PROGRAM SCAN Program Scan is identical to VFO Scan except that you select a frequency range for the scan. ■ Setting Scan Limits You can store up to 10 scan ranges in Memory channels L0/U0 to L9/U9. 1 Press [VFO] . 2 Select your desired band. 3 Rotate the Tuning control to select your desired ...

SCAN-4 VISUAL SCAN While you are receiving, Visual Scan allows you to monitor frequencies near the current operating frequency. Visual Scan graphically and simultaneously shows how all frequencies in the selected range are busy. You will see up to 21 segments, for each channel, that represent 7 S-me...

SIGNALING-1 CTCSS/ DCS/ CROSS TONE CTCSS You may sometimes want to hear calls only from specifi c persons. The Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS) allows you to ignore (not hear) unwanted calls from other persons who are using the same frequency. To do so, select the same CTCSS tone as sele...

SIGNALING-2 CTCSS FREQUENCY SCAN This function scans through all CTCSS frequencies to identify the incoming CTCSS frequency on a received signal. You may fi nd this useful when you cannot recall the CTCSS frequency that the other persons in your group are using. 1 Press [TONE] 2 times to activate th...

SIGNALING-3 5 Enter your desired DCS code using the microphone keypad. • Refer to the table below for DCS codes. DCS Code 023 025 026 031 032 036 043 047 051 053 054 065 071 072 073 074 114 115 116 122 125 131 132 134 143 145 152 155 156 162 165 172 174 205 212 223 225 226 243 244 245 246 251 252 25...

DUAL TONE MULTI-FREQUENCY (DTMF) The keys on the microphone keypad function as DTMF keys; the 12 keys found on a push-button telephone plus 4 additional keys (A, B, C, D). This transceiver provides 10 dedicated memory channels. You can store a DTMF code with up to 16 digits. Some repeaters in the U....

DTMF-2 ■ Transmitting Stored DTMF Codes 1 Press and hold the microphone [PTT] . 2 While transmitting, press the Tuning control. • The last called DTMF Memory channel name and number appear on the display. If no name has been saved for the channel, the DTMF code appears. 3 While still transmitting, r...

EchoLink ® WHAT IS EchoLink? EchoLink allows you to communicate with other amateur radio stations over the internet, using VoIP (voice-over-IP) technology. The EchoLink software program allows worldwide connections to be made between stations, or from computer to station, greatly enhancing your comm...

EchoLink-2 ■ Selecting a Transmit Speed Some repeaters may not respond correctly if a code is transmitted at fast speed. If this happens, change the EchoLink transmission speed from FAST (default) to SLOW. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 205. 2 Set the speed to FAST or SLOW. SETTING UP EchoLink Sy...

OTHER OPERATIONS SELECTING AN OUTPUT POWER It is a good idea to select lower transmit power if communications is still reliable. This lowers the risk of interfering with others on the band. When operating from battery power, you will enjoy more operating time before a recharge is necessary. Press [L...

OTHER OP-2 EXTERNAL SPEAKER CONFIGURATION This transceiver has two speaker jacks for external speakers, as well as an internal speaker. You can enjoy a variety of speaker confi gurations by using one or two external speakers. Received signals on bands A and B are output depending on how you want the...

OTHER OP-3 SWITCHING FM/AM MODE This transceiver is also capable of receiving (not transmitting) in AM on band A. The default mode on the 118 MHz band is AM while the default on the 144, 220, 300, or 430/440 MHz band is FM. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 102. 2 Set the mode to AM, FM, or NFM. Not...

OTHER OP-4 TIME-OUT TIMER (TOT) It is sometimes necessary or desirable to restrict a single transmission to a specifi c maximum time. You may use this function to prevent repeater time-outs when accessing repeaters, or to conserve battery power. When TOT times out (default is 10 minutes), the transc...

OTHER OP-5 PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION KEYS ■ Transceiver Front Panel There are 2 PF (Programmable Function) keys on the transceiver front panel: PF1 and PF2. You can assign your own desired functions to these 2 keys. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 906 (PF1) and/or Menu 907 (PF2). 2 Set your desired fu...

OTHER OP-6 AUTOMATIC POWER OFF (APO) Automatic Power Off is a background function that monitors whether or not any operations have been performed (keys pressed, Tuning control turned, etc.), and turns the transceiver power OFF if it has not been in use. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 917 (APO). 2...

GPS (GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM) WHAT IS GPS? GPS stands for Global Positioning System, and is common nowadays. Following is a brief introduction. Although the American Defense Department originally developed GPS for military operations, the system is available for use by the general public. Anybody ...

GPS – 3 TRACK LOG All movement is saved in the GPS Logger ( Internal GPS only) . Saved information includes latitude, longitude, altitude, travel direction, speed, time, and date. The log can retain up to 5000 points of data. Press [LOG] to turn the Track Log function On or Off. When turning the Tra...

GPS – 4 TARGET POINT You can register positional information for a target point. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 504. 2 Select a Target Point (from 1 ~ 5). 3 Press [USE] . • The “in use” target point mark ( ) appears to the left of the channel number. 4 Enter a Target Point name (up to 9 character...

GPS – 5 ■ Mark Waypoint List The information registered with the Mark Waypoint is confi rmed. 1 Press [MARK] to display the Mark Waypoint list. • The list of Mark waypoints appears. 2 Rotate the Tuning control to select a Mark Waypoint. [TOP] : Displays the fi rst 5 Mark Waypoints. [5  ]: Displays ...

PACKET Connect this transceiver to your personal computer via a Terminal Node Controller (TNC). You can send messages or commands to far away stations, obtain a variety of information via your local bulletin boards, or enjoy other Packet applications. Reference material for starting Packet operation...

PACKET-2 DATA BAND Select how data will be transmitted and received on your transceiver. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 930. 2 Set the data band to A-BAND (A band receives and transmits), B-BAND (B band receives and transmits), TX:A-BAND RX:B-BAND (A band transmits ( ) and B band receives ( )), o...

PACKET-3 TNC COMMANDS LIST The commands supported by the built-in TNC are listed below. You must enter a space between a command name (or short-form) and a parameter, or between two parameters; ex. AU OFF, BEACON EVERY 18. Command Name Short Description Parameter Default 8BITCONV 8 When ON, handles ...

APRS-1 APRS ® APRS DATA COMMUNICATION (APRS BEACON) ◆ This function uses the APRS format for data communications including your station position, messages, etc. ◆ When data is received from another station, the direction of the received station (from your station’s perspective), their distance, and ...

ADJUSTING THE INTERNAL CLOCK When the internal GPS function is turned ON, the year, month, day, and time are automatically set from the GPS satellite information. If the GPS information cannot be received, you can manually enter the date and time. Note: The battery for the clock backup is built into...

APRS-3 RECEIVING APRS DATA Each time a new APRS packet is received, the frequency display is interrupted to show information as below: Status text • The received APRS packet may include information on an object such as a hurricane or tornado. In this case, the name of the object appears instead of a...

APRS-4 CURSOR CONTROL Select a cursor control setting for reception. 1 Display the station list. 2 Press [TOP] to change the curser control between Followed mode and Fixed mode. The cursor display changes according to the selected mode. Followed mode ( ): On the list screen, the cursor ( ) follows t...

APRS-5 This transceiver is capable of displaying the following icons as station IDs. <APRS> <NAVITRA> Some icons may appear with overlay characters as below if the received icon data includes them (APRS only). Example: The following icons show the directions of stations relative to your ...

APRS-6 DISPLAY FILTER FUNCTION This function allows you to display only the specifi ed types of data from the station list. 1 Display the station list. 2 Press [FILTER]. • The fi lter type list appears on the display. 3 Select a fi lter type. 4 Press the Tuning control. • “FILTERING” appears on the ...

APRS-8 [CLR]: Cancels further transmissions of the current message. The table below shows the meanings of the symbols to be shown in step 2. a Meaning Message addressed to you B Bulletin message ! Report by the National Weather Service b RX or TX?  Received message (or bulletin)  A message (or bul...

APRS-10 SETTING WAY POINT Enter Menu mode and access Menu 603. ■ Way Point Format <FORMAT> Select the type of Way point Format that is sent. [NMEA]: The data which is output from the GPS terminal using the NMEA-0183 "$GPWPL" format. [MAGELLAN]: The data which is output from the GPS ter...

APRS-11 SELECTING A POSITION COMMENT Enter Menu mode and access Menu 607. The APRS data which you transmit always includes one of the 15 predetermined position comments. Select an appropriate comment depending on your situation. The selectable comments are listed below: [Off Duty] [Enroute] [In Serv...

APRS-12 ■ QSY Transmission Operation This function embeds the voice channel frequency, Wide/Narrow status, tone, shift, and offset information in the fi rst character of the status text. Enter Menu mode and access Menu 632. 1 Set the QSY IN STATUS to [ON]. 2 Set the TONE/NARROW to [ON] or [OFF]. 3 S...

APRS-13 APRS supports approximately 200 icons. It allows users to select each icon by specifying a combination of two ASCII codes, for example, ! and /. One is a symbol code, and the other is a table identifi cation code (either /or \). If you select “OTHERS”, use the following procedures: 1 Rotate ...

APRS-14 ■ TX Interval Time <TX INTERVAL> You can change the interval for automatically transmitting APRS packets. Access <TX INTERVAL > and select 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 30 or 60 minutes. The default is 3 minutes. Note: ◆ With “AUTO” in < METHOD > and Beacon ON, pressing the...

APRS-15 [STATE/SECTION/REGION]: Use this method when the packet is being relayed within only a limited area. Packet paths are specifi ed using ABBR (abbreviations). (In America, for example, CA represents California, AZ represents Arizona, etc.) 1 Set the TYPE to [STATE/SECTION/REGION], then press [...

APRS-16 Note: ◆ When the built-in data band is set to cross band, the Voice Alert function does not operate. ◆ Voice alert takes precedence even when TONE, CTCSS and DCS are set. ◆ When Voice alert is ON, you cannot perform TONE or CTCSS frequency selection and DCS code selection. ◆ When the packet ...

APRS-17 ■ UIFLOOD When using the TM-D710G as a digipeater, set whether or not UIFLOOD digipeat runs. When the received UI Frame character string matches the entered alias (for example, CA), the number of hops (for example, 2-2) is processed and decreased by 1 (for example, CA2-2 becomes CA2-1). Ente...

APRS-18 STORING AUTO MESSAGE REPLY Enter Menu mode and access Menu 622. ■ Auto Answer Reply <REPLY> While you are driving, for example, you cannot immediately answer to received messages. On this transceiver, you can program the message to be automatically returned when a message is received. ...

APRS-19 SETTING SOUND Enter Menu mode and access Menu 624. ■ RX Beep Type <RX BEEP> This transceiver beeps each time it receives any type of APRS packets. Selection Operation OFF The APRS beep tone does not sound. MESSAGE ONLY Beep sounds only when a message is received at your station address...

APRS-21 SmartBeaconing Operation: Speed Transmission Interval Corner Pegging Above the HIGH SPEED FAST RATE Operates normally Under HIGH SPEED Over LOW SPEED (Only when the set HIGH SPEED ≧ LOW SPEED) The interval is calculated using the following formula: (Transmission Interval = FAST RATE x HI SPE...

APRS-22 DX PACKETCLUSTERS MONITOR DX PacketClusters are networks which consist of nodes and stations who are interested in DXing and contesting. If one station fi nds a DX station on the air, he (or she) sends a notice to his (or her) node. Then this node passes the information to all its local stat...

TRANSCEIVER RESET There are 4 types of transceiver reset available: VFO Reset Use to initialize the VFO and accompanying settings. PARTIAL (Partial) Reset Use to initialize all settings other than the Memory channels, the DTMF memory, and the PM channels. PM Reset Use to reset only the Programmable ...

VGS-1 (OPTIONAL) OPERATION When using the optional VGS-1 voice guide & storage unit, you gain access to the voice recorder and voice announcement functions. VOICE ANNOUNCEMENTS When changing modes, frequencies, settings, etc., an audio voice will announce the new information. • Voice announcemen...

VGS-2 AUTO:Announcements are made automatically when changing a mode/frequency/setting. Operation Announcement CTCSS frequency setup “CTCSS frequency” + frequency value DCS code setup “DCS” + code value Cross tone setup “TX” + “TONE” or “DCS” + “RX” + “TONE” or “CTCSS” or “DCS” or “OFF” MHz step fre...

VGS-3 ■ Continuous Recording Received signals on the control band are continuously recorded, with the memory retaining the last 30 seconds of recorded signals. 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 009. 2 Set the Continuous Recording to ON (or OFF). • When selecting “ON”, Continuous Recording turns ON. ...

CROSS-BAND/ LOCKED-BAND OPERATION (TM-D710GA ONLY) This transceiver is capable of receiving signals on one band and retransmitting signals on the other band. This function repeats signals originating from one band, using the other band. For example, a signal received on band A (VHF) is retransmitted...

WIRELESS OPERATION (TM-D710GA ONLY) If you also have a compatible KENWOOD handy transceiver, you may use it as a remote control for this mobile transceiver. You will control one band on the mobile while sending DTMF tones to the other band from the handheld. This function is useful, for example, whe...

WEATHER ALERT (TM-D710GA ONLY) The Weather Alert is available only in the USA and Canada. When activated, this function will check for a received NOAA 1050 Hz tone. When the tone is received, the weather alert tone will sound. WEATHER ALERT ON/ OFF 1 Enter Menu mode and access Menu 111. 2 Set the We...

SKY COMMAND SYSTEM II The SKY COMMAND SYSTEM II allows remote control of a TS-990S, TS-2000, TS-2000X, TS-B2000, TS-480HX, TS-480SAT, TS-570D, TS-570S, TS-590S, or TS-870S HF transceiver. You will use one transceiver as a control station called “Commander”. The transceiver connected with the HF tran...

SKY CMD-2 PREPARATION FLOW The following steps should guide you to a good start of Sky Command operation. First connect the Transporter to the HF transceiver. 1 <On the Commander and Transporter> Select the same VHF and UHF frequencies. Band A: VHF frequency Band B: UHF frequency or Band A: UH...

SKY CMD-3 CONTROL OPERATION When in the Sky Command mode, the Microphone keys of the Commander will function as below. First switch ON the HF transceiver and press Microphone [0] on the Commander. Each time you press the desired key, the Commander will automatically enter transmit mode and send the ...