Steve

2 weeks ago

Steve
2 weeks ago

To #blind #hamradio operators, a friend picked up a TH-D75A that he doesn't want. Having only worked with HT's running OpenGD77, are there any special advantages to this rig aside from the wideband receiver and D-STAR (which I don't really care about)? e.g. is APRS or the TNC of any use with things like Winlink?

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Borris

in reply to Steve 2 weeks ago

Well, basically what you said. I don't have a TH-D75, I have the older TH-D74, and honestly I prefer using my TYT MD-UV380 most of the time. It has way better battery life, a better speaker, better TX audio... The TH-D75 is a little better in that respect.

There are no Winlink nodes close enough to me to easily get to with 5 watts, but I have the BLE converter board someone made for it so I can connect it to RadioMail on my iPhone if I ever need to.

I've used DSTAR on it maybe three times ever.

Dual receive is nice, but full duplex, especially for that money, would be even nicer, and it doesn't have that.

If you're in an area where the 1.25m band is at least attempting to be active, maybe that's an advantage.

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Steve

in reply to Borris 2 weeks ago

@BorrisInABox We do have a 1.25M repeater in the area, and one machine that runs D-STAR exclusively (no idea how much it's used). APRS might be fun, assuming it's even accessible for us.

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Borris

in reply to Steve 2 weeks ago

It's traditionally not really accessible the way it's generally used, but you can certainly decode packets and maybe do something fun with it. You can (very slowly) use APRSChat from the radio. No TTS, so it spells everything out, but it can be done.

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Steve

in reply to Borris 2 weeks ago

@BorrisInABox Hmm, so maybe not worth picking up. I was hoping the built-in wideband receiver would be worth it, but maybe not.

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Borris

in reply to Steve 2 weeks ago

I don't know how much better the receiver is on the TH-D75 than the TH-D74, but I found the one on the 74 to be not really all that great under 50 mHz. My Icom IC-R30 does a lot better.

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Steve

in reply to Borris 1 week ago

@BorrisInABox Gah. And of course that receiver's not available for purchase except second hand.

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Borris

in reply to Steve 1 week ago

Correct. I got a silly deal on it, or I wouldn't have bothered. Someone sold it for $150, I expect they didn't realize what they had.

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Steve 2 weeks ago • •

Steve
2 weeks ago