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  1. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Kenwood area.

    Start Date: Apr 24 8:00 PM
    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #Kenwood #Seattle

  2. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Kenwood area.

    Start Date: Mar 11 9:10 PM
    Est. Restoration: Mar 12 3:16 AM

    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #Kenwood #Seattle

  3. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Kenwood area.

    Start Date: Mar 11 9:07 PM
    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #Kenwood #Seattle

  4. Just added the new Lynovation CTR2-Quad to my store shop.g7ufo.radio/s/d1fd1a if you're looking for to pick one of these up. I build and ship these from the UK.

    This can act as a midi controller so any SDR software which accepts midi can be used with the CTR2-Uno, Duo or Quad, communicating via USB or Bluetooth. #icom #yaesu #kenwood #elecraft

    If you have a #flexradio it can alternatively connect to the radio directly via WiFi.

  5. The #RobertFergusonObservatory is absolutely lovely. I was #Camping in #SugarloafRidgeStatePark yesterday, and managed to attend one of their viewing days.

    They start with a delightful presentation demonstrating the absolute absurdly astronomical magnitude of space, and then let you wander and look through their 3 telescopes while docents point them at nebula, planets, and even the Andromeda Galaxy!

    It was an absolute blast and I will be coming back!

    #Astronomy #SFBA #Kenwood

  6. ChatGPT actually helping me figure out how to mount this #kenwood #d710

  7. just procured. can’t wait to get the gps puck and installed somewhere and somehow in eugene. #kenwood #d710

  8. @Milu Tak to je pro mě velké překvapení, se kterým jsem nepočítal 😀

    Ona zase tak plodná nebude, když ti každej řekne "kup #Kenwood" 😀

  9. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Kenwood area.

    Start Date: Jul 6 2:24 PM
    Est. Restoration: Jul 7 12:36 AM

    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #Kenwood #Seattle

  10. Some time back I looked into making an adaptor to go from #Kenwood accessories to a #Yaesu radio… as there seems to be a lot out there for Kenwood than Yaesu, and Kenwood are no longer making amateur radio gear (at least not for the VK market). (And sadly, the Chinese stuff has rubbish support for APRS which I use a lot. Not that Yaesu is _much_ better…)

    I had some success connecting accessory PTT to ground, accessory MIC to MIC and hooking accessory SPK to SPK via a capacitor. That meant the DC path to the microphone was blocked by the capacitor, in steady-state conditions, keeping the radio out of TX.

    However, the moment anything made a noise, DC current flowed across the capacitor, and suddenly there was a DC path from microphone, through speaker and capacitor to ground… radio would go into TX mode.

    I also tried a transformer in the speaker audio path, but it seems the radio doesn't generate enough flux through the transformer to drive a speaker at the other end.

    There's a low-current 3.3V line on the Yaesu rigs… and I'm thinking that might be my answer. Two options come to mind after some research:

    1. using a P-channel MOSFET: source to radio MIC, drain to accessory MIC, 1k+ resistor between gate and 3.3V, then hook accessory PTT to the gate. Theory being, pull-up resistor will keep MOSFET in HI-Z turning microphone off, the moment PTT gets hit, gate connects to 0V, turns on MOSFET and allows current through to the electret microphone to engage TX.
    2. use a solid-state relay… one possible option is Vishay VO1400AEF (au.element14.com/vishay/vo1400)

    #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

  11. So instead of a new HT I came home with a hotspot, a speaker mic for the ID-50a, and a few cables. Nearly bought an SDRPlay, but I need to figure out if it will do what I want. #hamradio #kenwood #thd75

  12. The APRS stuff looks cool, and the screen is brighter than the ID-52a…but oy even with the manual I found it painful to play with. Although, to be fair, the manual in question was on my phone, and standing at a store counter is not a great learn-the-new-radio environment #hamradio #kenwood #thd75

  13. For example, why doesn’t its repeater list allow FM repeaters like Icom does? And why couldn’t we get a GPS lock? And why, oh why is the bluetooth not compatible with Air Pods? If you’re going to use some other standard, you’d best be selling a compatible BT headset…but nope. #hamradio #kenwood #thd75

  14. I spent a few hours at HRO yesterday trying to talk myself into liking and buying the Kenwood TH-D75. I still want to want it, but so much on that radio is just odd or broken. It wasn’t fun to use. #hamradio #kenwood #thd75

  15. The Alliance Amateur Radio Club (W8LKY) in northeast Ohio is having a raffle for an HF radio:

    Kenwood TS-590SG

    You don't have to be present to win, and they'll ship it across the U.S. if you win 👀

    w8lky.org/fundraisers/hf_rig_r

    I might be entering, hehe

    #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #hamr #HFrig #Kenwood #Ohio #NortheastOhio #W8LKY

  16. Das war ein spontaner #Einkauf ohne #Auto aber mit #Einkaufswagen.

    Nachdem die über 50 Jahre alte #Kenwood Maschine meiner Frau in Rauch aufgegangen war, sind wir über ein günstigeres Ausstellungsmodell gestolpert, genau von dem Modell das wir als Nachfolger ausgemacht haben.

    Wir hatten schon Einkäufe dabei, u.a. 6 kg Bücher, trotzdem war der Transport gut möglich, ohne gross Schweiss zu verursachen.

    #Autokorrektur, #Fussgänger

  17. Leider etwas enttäuschende Talk-Aufzeichnung über #AndroidAuto aus dem #HackerHotel (insbesondere weil der Ton der Fragen in der Q&A-Session nicht im Stream zu hören ist):

    "Android Auto (Flitsmeister)"
    media.ccc.de/v/2025-205-androi

    Die #HomeAssistant-Integration sollte ich mir mal genauer anschauen, vielleicht kann man darüber einen #Amateurfunk-#Transceiver über die #HeadUnit des Autos fernsteuern.

    Ansonsten scheint Android Auto aus Sicherheitsgründen (Vermeidung von Ablenkung des Fahrers) so zugenagelt zu sein, dass #HamRadio-Anwendungen eher durch's Raster fallen, da nur offizielle App-Store-Apps die Android-Auto-Funktionen nutzen dürfen und dafür nur eine recht enge Liste an App-Typen zugelassen wird. Wobei man Funkgeräte-Fernsteuerung vielleicht noch als IoT verargumentieren kann...

    Das Beste wäre, #Yaesu, #Kenwood, #Icom & Co würden sich des Themas mit offiziellen Apps annehmen um den veränderten Bedingungen in modernen Autos Rechnung zu tragen.

  18. Oh, #Kenwood scheint mit dem TM-D750 an einem neuen Mobil-#Transceiver mit #APRS und #DSTAR zu arbeiten.

    Scheint noch keine offizielle Seite zu geben, aber dl-nordwest.com/index.php/2025 vermittelt wohl einen ersten Eindruck.

    #HamRadio #Amateurfunk #TMD750

  19. Oh, #Kenwood scheint mit dem TM-D750 an einem neuen Mobil-#Transceiver mit #APRS und #DSTAR zu arbeiten.

    Scheint noch keine offizielle Seite zu geben, aber dl-nordwest.com/index.php/2025 vermittelt wohl einen ersten Eindruck.

    #HamRadio #Amateurfunk #TMD750

  20. Oh, #Kenwood scheint mit dem TM-D750 an einem neuen Mobil-#Transceiver mit #APRS und #DSTAR zu arbeiten.

    Scheint noch keine offizielle Seite zu geben, aber dl-nordwest.com/index.php/2025 vermittelt wohl einen ersten Eindruck.

    #HamRadio #Amateurfunk #TMD750

  21. KENWOOD TRIO AVENUE 800 [JAPAN, 1980]
    KT-800 / KA-800
    Powerful amplifier with 50w per channel (8Ω Stereo)
    Synth preset tuner, full auto turntable
    Really a powerful system for that year

    #Japan #Kenwood #Retro #Vintage #Stereo #1980s #Audiophile #MusicLover #ShowaEra #JapanTech

  22. KENWOOD TRIO AVENUE 800 [JAPAN, 1980]
    KT-800 / KA-800
    Powerful amplifier with 50w per channel (8Ω Stereo)
    Synth preset tuner, full auto turntable
    Really a powerful system for that year

    #Japan #Kenwood #Retro #Vintage #Stereo #1980s #Audiophile #MusicLover #ShowaEra #JapanTech

  23. Nice find today at the Swapfest. Hello satellites #kenwood #d7

  24. At #HamRadio2024, I treated myself with a #thd75. I am confused on what the [CALL] button is supposed to do. From the manual, I get that this provides quick access to a "calling" frequency. So, pressing [CALL] and menu 204 should be identical. Yet, all my device does, is entering TX like PTT but only when in analog modes.

    I just updated the firmware to 1.03 without any effect on this behavior.

    Anybody able to shed some light on this.

    #fedihelp #kenwood #th_d75 #hamr #ham #hamradio

  25. Yes, as I said, 2A continuous managed to drain the LiFePO4 battery I was using to power the KX2, this was 12.6V and after a few minutes it got to 11.2V and started misbehaving. Old tech is power hungry. #Kenwood #R5000

  26. Powering up an old friend, 2A of current consumption. #Kenwood #R5000