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SETTING UP A KANTRONICS TERMINAL NODE CONTROLLER FOR TRACKER OPERATION PARAMETERS WERE ABSTRACTED FROM MY OWN SYSTEM TO HELP OTHERS.


KANTRONICS STAND ALONE MOBILE TRACKER PARAMETERS

You will need the this equipment to operate as a tracker

1.A GPS reciever that has a data send port or external cable

2.A 2 meter transciever tuned to 144.390 mhz simplex

3.A Kantronics TNC with version 8.2 firmware or higher

4.A 2 meter mobile ant at least 3 db gain if you travel a lot

or a on glass ant will do fine in cities

5.A laptop or other device that lets you see activity on a map or copy text this is optional

6.A cable that connects your radio to your tnc you can make them or purchase them

on my homepage in the link section is a great resource for constructing cables

7.The following commands below must be entered into your TNC.

I use the PACTERM terminal program that comes with this TNC

and once your new TNC is intializes then at the command prompt I enter theese parameters as listed belo

most of the parameters are default by the manufacture but I look at them all just to make sure.

any problems just email me qsl 73

8BITCONV ON ABAUD 4800 AUTOLF ON AX25L2V2 ON AXDELAY 0 AXHANG 0 BEACON EVERY 0 (disabled) BKONDEL ON BLT 1 EVERY 00:01:33 2 EVERY 01:00:00 3 EVERY 00:00:00 4 EVERY 00:00:00 BREAK OFF BTEXT NONE FF NONE A Link state is: DISCONNECTED CANLINE $18 (CTRL-X) CANPAC $19 (CTRL-Y) CD SOFTWARE CHECK 0 (disabled) CMDTIME 1 (1 sec) CMSG DISC COMMAND $03 (CTRL-C) CONLIST OFF NONE CONMODE CONVERS CONOK ON CONPERM OFF CPACTIME OFF CR ON CRSUP OFF CSTAMP OFF CTEXT NONE CTRL A OFF B OFF CWID EVERY 0 (disabled) CWIDTEXT NONE DAYTIME OFF TWEAK 8 DAYSTR OFF DAMACHCK 18 (180 sec) DBLDISC OFF DELETE $08 (CTRL-H) DIGIPEAT OFF DWAIT 0 ECHO ON ESCAPE OFF FLOW ON FILTER OFF FRACK 4 (4 sec) FULLDUP OFF GPSHEAD 1 $GPRMC 2 $GPGGA 3 4 5 GPSINIT BLANK HB 1200 HEADERLN OFF HID OFF HTEXT INTFACE TERMINAL KNTIMER 15 min LEDS ON LCOK ON LFADD OFF LFSUP OFF LGETCHAR $05 LLIST OFF NONE LTP 1 GPSLJ VIA RELAY,WIDE 2 GPSLJ VIA WIDE2-2 3 GPS 4 GPS LTRACK 0 MONITOR ON WHEN RX DATA ON LAPTOP OR OTHER DEVICES TURN MON OFF WHEN NOT NEEDED MALL ON MAXFRAME 4 MAXUSERS 10 MBEACON ON MCON OFF MCOM OFF MHEADER ON MRESP OFF MRPT ON MSTAMP OFF MXMIT OFF MYCALL KK7CN MYALIAS NONE MYDROP 0 MYNODE NONE MYPBBS % MYREMOTE {ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ENTER TO ACCESS YER TNC REMOTLEY} NDWILD OFF NEWMODE ON NOMODE OFF NTEXT NUMNODES 0 PACLEN 0 PACTIME AFTER 10 (1000 msec) PASS $16 (CTRL-V) PASSALL OFF PBBS 10 PBFORWRD NONE EVERY 0 (disabled) PBHEADER ON PBHOLD ON PBKILLFW OFF PBLIST OFF NONE PBLO NEW VARIABLE PBPERSON OFF PBREVERS ON PERSIST 63 (25%) PID OFF PMODE CMD PTEXT REDISPLA $12 (CTRL-R) RELINK OFF RETRY 10 RING ON RNRTIME 0 (disabled) RTEXT ANYTHING YOU WANT FER REMOTE PASSWORD SCREENL 0 SENDPAC $0D (CTRL-M) SLOTTIME 10 (100 msec) START $11 (CTRL-Q) STOP $13 (CTRL-S) STREAMSW $7C (|) STREAMCA OFF STREAMEV OFF SUPLIST OFF SWP 17,17,108 TELEMTRY 0 (disabled) TRACE OFF TRFLOW OFF TRIES 0 TXDELAY 30 (300 msec) TXFLOW OFF UNPROTO APRSW VIA RELAY,WIDE2-2 UIDIGI OFF UIDWAIT OFF UIFLOOD OFF UITRACE OFF USERS 1 XFLOW ON XKCHKSUM OFF XKPOLLED OFF XMITLVL 100 XMITOK ON XOFF $13 (CTRL-S) XON $11 (CTRL-Q) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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