Category Archives: Kenwood

NX-5300 / 5800 – KD4EFM to review it in December

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Greetings and I hope you all have a safe Holiday season.

December 3rd, the due date for my NX-5300 and 5800 radios. As of right now, save your coins, you will need some of it for this beauty. With HAM FRIENDLY pricing, it’s gets deep
still when you start adding in features. We have posted LIST prices for the radios in the Yahoo group. Software, JVCKenwood has migrated to a License Management Client System. This means key piracy will get nipped in the butt. Here is a
screen shot of the program.
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Here you have HTML export of the radio information.

This is the License Management System
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This is what they look like.

 

The Portable, you can remove the channel stop on the 16 channel switch for FULL ROLL OVER. The mobile fits the same bracket as the NX-700 / 800 series, comes with GPS, antenna ordered separately.

Remote Kits for the mobile, I posted on the yahoo group, will be forthcoming, and allows single head, 1,2 or 3 RF deck operation from a SINGLE HEAD or DUAL HEAD. Look for this to come out March – May 2015 (2nd Quarter 2015).
RF_deck_info

Enough for now. Cheers. I am waiting on the new line up of ICOM’s forthcoming, when I have that information, I will be posting about that as well.

Prices: Contact me directly please. They will not be posted on this or any other site I am on.

Evans Mitchell
KD4EFM

Californication? Yes. NX-5000 Multi Mode Kenwood, COMING SOON!

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I had a nice chat with a California member of Kenwood, they are gearing up to get their rPi setup with their NXR-800, and get it installed and brought online soon!

I will post when it comes up and where to look for it.

Interested in joining the network with your ICOM or Kenwood NXDN repeater?
Your at the right place.

Search through the archive and posts to learn more.
I will be working on the HOW TO guide in the next few weeks and hope to have it
posted for both the ICOM’ers and Kenwood people.

October is the release of the 700/800MHz NX-5000. Lots of talk on Radio Reference
on this! The VHF and UHF will follow in December / January. And I will have HAM
Friendly pricing available as soon as I get the details. WARNING! It will not be cheap,
but you will get you monies worth for it.

Cheers!

Evans Mitchell
KD4EFM

NXREF Status: Active Connections report 8-29-14

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The following list is active on the network as of 8-29-14 at 9AM ET

ICOM – 11
W7QO, NI4CE, KI4SWY, AE7OD, KC1JET, KC9GMX, N1OTY, KB1ISZ, VA3YYZ

KENWOOD – 11
K4GFD-2, KJ4OVA, KD4EFM, W7QO, N5QZ, K1IFF, WX7Y, K1IFF-1, K4GFD-2, WB9HKE, KF4I

(Reflector connections are 2 W7QO would be duplicated, they create the bridge)

Evans Mitchell
KD4EFM

KF4I – Palm Coast, Florida to come online

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Thom Scott, KF4I, in Palm coast will be replacing 443.3000 with a mixed mode Kenwood NXDN NXR-810 shortly. Today (11/16/13) KD4EFM and KF4I installed
and brought online the Raspberry Pi that will be part of the NXREF system, and
fine-tuned it for temp operation at his home QTH. Once the network is installed and
made operational at the repeater site, the repeater will be moved and replacing the
existing 443.3000. Details on that will come later.

443.30000
RAN 1 / PL 107.2
WBFM Analog
VNFM NXDN.

Palm_Coast

This will allow coverage from Saint Augustine down into Dayton Beach using the World Wide NXDN network. From Orland, KJ4OVA covers up to the northern end of I-4 at I-95.

Welcome aboard Thom!

 

NXDN on trial in Torrington CT

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From Cliff, K1IFF

I have an NXR810 on the air, mixed mode (WFM) and VN digital in Torrington CT.  It’s at K1KGQ’s site as a trial. 

Joel is thinking seriously about getting his own NXR and some mobiles.  After only 5 days, he is VERY impressed.

Anyone in the area, give it a try.  It’s on 449.775 (-), PL is 141.3, RAN1.  No internet connection yet at the site.

Status of the NXREF and What Is Happening

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Greetings all,
Here is a quick run up of what is in the pressure cooker….
NXREF UPDATES TO ROLL OUT IN THE COMING MONTHS.

A & B; A Bug Fix for the Kenwood side of the NXREF. One is with the turn on / turn off messages, and the other is dealing with the heartbeat for the UDP ports, since KWD uses 2 UDP ports.

New Features: Talk Group Linking and Authentication, a simple Public PKM style (something like IRLP) to add security to the NXDN Network. If the access code does not match, no link will be established.
Talk Group Linking; this will allow for Local, Regional, State, or even Area Wide uses.
Florida uses TG 1200 for Florida Wide, and Tampa is using 1201 for West Central Florida. As an example.

If you have not become a member of the HAM_NXDN email group, this is a Yahoo group located at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ham_nxdn/
This is open to ALL HAMS World Wide, and talks about the use of NXDN Radios for the advancement of Ham Radio, and 6.25 Digital Technology.

That is it for now.

 

Antrak Turkey adds new repeater to thier network..

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From Serdar:

Dear Gang,
We setup our new NXDN repeater (VHF- R2- 145.650 MHz) to new location over the 17th and 18th weekend of August.
You can find installation photos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/burcakcubukcu/sets/72157635115017614/

We linked this repeater to our other NXDN repeater (VHF-R7-145.775 MHz) which is located at our club building via 5Ghz link. Everything seems working now. In next days, we are planning to re-establish NXDN Reflector link via Raspberry PI.

 

Kenwood Info

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When adding a Kenwood repeater to the network… 2 things are required.

a) you MUST turn off the Over the Air Alias on both the repeater and any users radios.  If you don’t, there is a better than 50% chance that NO icom radio will hear your call which can be pretty frustrating when you’re on a WW linked system.

b) your repeater MUST run Very Narrow on the Digital side.  Icom does not support 12.5khz digital, only 6.25 and so the 2 systems are not compatible unless they both are set for 6.25khz… this is a Kenwood repeater setting btw.

Tallahassee, FL now online!

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Ok, so it’s probably time that I created some form of table of who’s what, where :)…

We just brought up a new Kenwood site today on VHF and Norm in Tallahassee will be adding a UHF site to that a bit later.

Current list of linked systems, frequencies and RAN codes.

  • I – Atlanta, GA – 442.025+, RAN 1
  • I – Atlanta, GA – 443.050+, RAN 1
  • I – Cleveland, OH – 444.45625+, RAN 1
  • I – Tampa, FL – 444.425+, RAN 1
  • I – New Port Richey, FL – 442.7625+, RAN 1
  • I – South Lansing, MI – 443.250+, RAN 5
  • I – Toronto, ONT – 443.050+, RAN 1
  • I – Taunton, MA – 145.280-, RAN 1
  • I – Swansea, MA – 145.320-, RAN 1
  • I – Pinckney, MI – 146.500 +1.000mhz, RAN 47
  • I – Seattle, WA – ?? (coming online soon)
  • K – Venice, FL – 444.100+, RAN 1
  • K – Orlando, FL – 442.0375+, RAN 1
  • K – Lakeland, FL – 146.655-, RAN 1
  • K – Bristol, CT – 449.975-, RAN 1
  • K – Bristol, CT – 145.220-, RAN 1 (off net until further notice)
  • K – Johnson City, TX
  • K – Greensboro, FL – 147.390+, RAN 1
  • K – Tallahassee, FL – 444.175+, RAN 1
  • K – Milwaukee, WI – 444.750+, RAN 1
  • K – Ankara, Turkey – 145.775-, RAN 1
  • K – Vancouver, BC
  • K – Searcy, AR – 146.655-, RAN 1
  • K – Searcy, AR – 444.500+, RAN 1