I am thinking about using my Kenwood TH-D72A with it's micro usb port to connect directly to the USB port of a raspberry pi running the Allstar software. I would like to make a small Allstar node using a raspberry pi running the Allstar software and connecting to my phone hotspot using wi-fi on the phone and raspberry pi.
Does anyone know if this will work? I think that you can get radio audio through the micro usb connection as the Kenwood manual mentions something about digital audio and running TNC, etc. However I am not sure that the Allstar software will work connected directly to the Kenwood in this manner.
Does anyone here have any experience or information that could help me?
I have seen other information where people have internally modified a Boefang transceiver to output to a DB25 connector which is then connected to a raspberry pi via a special cable with a sound fob and another DB25 connector. However it is a bulky sloppy setup and I would rather use my existing Kenwood radio with it's factory micro-usb port and by-pass all the Db25 could card fob connection.
Thanks,
K0GGC