I recently picked up a new Kenwood D710G to be used for 2 meter packet radio. I decided to set up a BPQ node as the software is very powerful and offers a lot of features.
In order to get the D710G working with BPQ, you must first enable KISS mode in the built-in TNC. To do so, you’ll. need to first connect to it. You’ll need the Minicom software to do so. Follow these steps:
- Run
sudo apt install minicom
- Run
sudo minicom -s
- Go to Serial port setup and press enter
- Press A, and type your radio’s serial port location. It is most likely /dev/ttyUSB0
- Press enter, and press E
- Select your radio’s baud rate
- Pres enter
- Press escape
- Go to Exit from Minicom, and press enter
- Run
sudo minicom
- Press enter if you don’t see cmd:
- run
kiss on
- run
restart
- Press CTRL-A and then Z and then X to exit minicom
BPQ should now be able to communicate with your radio’s TNC.
These instructions miss out saving the minicom configuration and then calling minicom with that parameter.
Thanks for pointing that out. Good catch!