If you have never tried Kenwood’s commercial line of radios for data radios, you are missing out. I have setup many traditional packet stations with a KPC-3 and a TK-7180 or TK-8180.
I will be setting up one of these radios with a DigiRig and Vara FM. I want to know how much data thru put is possible on this setup.
I have used a Digirig and FTM-6000 setup as a base station on UHF. For a portable setup with a DigiRig and a Kenwood handheld (TK-3312). This combo produced 47 kilo-baud thru put on UHF. Not bad.
I want to try the Kenwood TK-8180 as a base station to see what it will do.
Info on the Kenwood TK-7180 (VHF) and TK-8180 (UHF).
Info on the Kenwood TK-2312 (VHF) and TK-3312 (UHF).
I was just going thru some of my old drawings for pinouts using the KPC-3 and TK-7180 or TK-8180.
In this configuration I would set the KPC-3 as a digipeater somewhere as a stand alone device. They were great for years, but the KPC-3 years have long past.
Here is a PDF of a drawing I drew up in Autocad so I would have a good hard copy to work from. Just a FYI, the radio powered the KPC-3 thru this connection. I only had to provide power to the radio.
If the radio went off, so did the KPC-3.
