Hello Liam

Yes, it is as simple as that.  The Kenwood rigs are more easy than
others as I believe they use straight ASCII command strings at 4800
baud.  I believe that they also use the some commands for each rig,
whereas Yaesu and Icom use different command strings according to the
model.

I have interfaced my Braille and Speak with my AEA Morse Machine 3 to
send CW from the 7-key pad - just for a bit of a laugh when giving a
talk on gismos at my local club.

HTH de G3YXX

I think you wrote  below <[log in to unmask]>,
ljflynn <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hi everyone,
>
>I've been thinking about trading my ts850 in for a ts2000 recently.  Nothing
>radically wrong with the 850 but its starting to tire and there is an
>expensive sounding crackle as I turn the main encoder.  When I call my local
>service depot they suck in the breath and pound signs start appearing.
>
>Well anyway everytime I look at Yaeusu or Icom I come back to the issue
>about which rigs have speech output.  So we come back to Kenwood.
>
>It struck me that most of the rigs by the main makers are drivable from a
>pc.  Now I'm assuming wildly here that this simply means that there is a two
>way communication between the PC and the radio via a serial port.  Can this
>be done with a dumb terminal?  If I learned the codes could I drive a rig
>with the terminal program in say a braille note or the function on a braille
>and speak?   Pulsedata were discussing releasing a developers kit so you
>could write apps for the braillenote.  Not sure if this happened but if the
>comms thing is simply squirting a command or request at the rig and
>receiving a string back then in principle it would be possible to us a
>braille and squeak instead of the built in synthetic h options.  Ok its
>expensive if you haven't got a B&s but everyone seems to  have one of these
>gismos these days.
>
>Anyone tried this or am I barking up the wrong tree.
>
>- Liam g4uwp

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David W Wood