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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