Well, the best info source for Kenwood-Amateur/US is still out of the office with a back injury. Leo might be back in a week or two ...
Personally, I would be surprised if Kenwood dedicated a lot of engineering talent to a new, true full-duplex amateur handheld. The profit for them is not in the amateur world - but in the land mobile / commercial arenas.
I hope I am wrong, though!
Clint Bradford, K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com 909-241-7666
Clint,
Personally, I would be surprised if Kenwood dedicated a lot of engineering talent to a new, true full-duplex amateur handheld. The profit for them is not in the amateur world - but in the land mobile / commercial arenas.
I hope I am wrong, though!
At Dayton 5 months ago, Kenwood had posters in their booth announcing a new HT and HF transceiver for the summer of 2010. Of course, there were no details released at that time for either radio.
If Kenwood is simply updating the design of the old TH-D7 to be this new HT, that might be their way to minimize R&D costs. If they are able to replace the component(s) no longer in production with others, they may not make many other updates in the interests of saving money. The radio was still popular until it was discontinued, and remains popular on the used market now. I picked one up at a hamfest 3 months ago, and still need to make time to play around with it.
When the TM-D710 and TM-V71 mobile radios were released, Kenwood only developed one radio "box" for both of these models. They share the same FCC ID number, and the RC-D710 adds the TNC functionality to the TM-V71 (the RC-D710 does not attach to the TM-V71, unfortunately). Kenwood may be trying to stay in the amateur market, without spending lots of money to do so. It will be interesting to see what this new HT looks like, whenever it sees the light of day (or when someone puts photos of it online).
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Didn't someone post a video link of the new Kenwood HF radio and APRS HT from the 2009 Tokyo Ham Fair a while back? Or maybe that was another email list anyway I still have the link in my bookmarks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_GCvYfbKgA
New HT is shown starting at 2:16 in the video.
-- Albert Jagnow N0PFT
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:15 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Kenwood HT for 2010?
It will be interesting to see what this new HT looks like, whenever it sees the light of day (or when someone puts photos of it online).
Hi
If you want to see it near the end of the video
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/ja7ude/KenwoodBoothAtTokyoHamFair2009#53729388...
If i had to guess, it's prob the least amount of effort to make it ROHS compliant, and maybe tweak a few things that wouldn't run up the $$
drawing heavy on the D7 vs a redesign
Looks nice very similar to it's successor
On Oct 21, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) wrote:
Clint,
Personally, I would be surprised if Kenwood dedicated a lot of engineering talent to a new, true full-duplex amateur handheld. The profit for them is not in the amateur world - but in the land mobile / commercial arenas.
I hope I am wrong, though!
At Dayton 5 months ago, Kenwood had posters in their booth announcing a new HT and HF transceiver for the summer of 2010. Of course, there were no details released at that time for either radio.
If Kenwood is simply updating the design of the old TH-D7 to be this new HT, that might be their way to minimize R&D costs. If they are able to replace the component(s) no longer in production with others, they may not make many other updates in the interests of saving money. The radio was still popular until it was discontinued, and remains popular on the used market now. I picked one up at a hamfest 3 months ago, and still need to make time to play around with it.
When the TM-D710 and TM-V71 mobile radios were released, Kenwood only developed one radio "box" for both of these models. They share the same FCC ID number, and the RC-D710 adds the TNC functionality to the TM-V71 (the RC-D710 does not attach to the TM-V71, unfortunately). Kenwood may be trying to stay in the amateur market, without spending lots of money to do so. It will be interesting to see what this new HT looks like, whenever it sees the light of day (or when someone puts photos of it online).
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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