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K0GGC

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Making an All-Star hotspot with Kenwood TH-D72A handheld
« on: February 18, 2019, 02:02:27 PM »

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
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