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being a member of the community. All Right, wait for it, Wait
for it, Wait for it, wait for it. Look at that brand
spanking new well. I got the Kenwood THD seventy five, and this radio
has been pretty cool so far. I've had it about two days at the
time of this recording, and I'm liking it quite a bit. There's not
a lot of difference between it and its predecessor, to the D seventy four.
It does do a few more things that the D seventy four didn't do.
But I tell you this right now, I've already tried this. I
tried to back up all my memories on an SD card with the D seventy
four and then take that SD card out of the D seventy four and load
it into the D seventy five, and it says no file found so I
could not do that, so I back it up successfully successful backup on the
D seventy four. No file found with that same SD card on the D
seventy five, So I was hoping I'd be able to transfer my memories over
my repeater channels. I've saved my contacts and whatnot. It has a thing
for transferring like d Star contacts. I didn't have any of that stuff,
but I had a bunch of memory channel saved on the D seventy four,
which you're still there. Doesn't seem to be an easy way to transfer it.
I also have not downloaded the programming software for this radio yet. This
video you're watching right now will premiere the day before Orlandoham cation. So while
I'm at Orlandoham Cation, I'm recording this a few days prior. I'm going
to look for a programming cable for this radio and see if we can get
to It's just a standard K connector on the side, so I think you
could probably use like the standard any Tone cable or just any standard Kinwood K
connector cable. This is a Kinwood radio using a Kinwood cable. What a
concept? I don't know. I don't know if it requires an FTDI chip
or a prolific chip or no chip at all. So we're gonna get to
that eventually. But today I wanted to show you, guys, really really,
what I want to show you is I want to do a comparison here
between the D seventy four, which is right here on the left. Turn
that on, okay, and the D seventy five, which is of course
on the right. Now, well, let's go around at first. Okay,
I lost my Kinwood antenna a long time ago that I actually lost it
in a hotel room, and I'm planning on taking the D seventy five with
me this weekend to Orlando, Himcas. So I hope I don't lose my
antenna this weekend in a hotel room in Orlando. But we'll see. This
is the Smiley antenna, and this is pretty cool because it's the extendable antenna,
and it's one of their antennas that they recommend for a triband radio because
you can adjust the length of it for different bands and whatnot. There's not
really a meter on the radio to tell you if it's resonant on two meters
to twenty four to forty so I usually just extended up all the way and
just say, you know, there we go. And it works pretty well
on this radio for a tryband radio for two meters to twenty and four to
forty so. But that's the intenna I've got over here. And this is
the stock Kinwood antenna on the D seventy five right there. I would love
to put a signal stick on here, but signal stick. Last I checked,
signal stick does not make a try band antenna, but Smiley Intenna's does.
And you can get a full range of Smiley Antenna's Ham Radio, GMRS
radio, different band at commercial band radios, full range of Smiley Antenna's at
better say for radio dot com. And I want to give a special shout
out to Main Trading Company. I got this D seventy five from Main Trading
Company. I partner with them for this video. I'm on their email list.
I'll put a link to their email list in the description below. Be
sure to check that out. Because I was laying in bed one night and
I got an email saying, hey, I've got some D seventy five's in
stock, but they're gonna go fast, and I ordered one immediately and I
had it in two days, so special shout out and thanks to Richard for
that. Over at Main Trading Company MTC Radio dot com is their website.
All right, So let's go around the radio. You can see the face
of each radio here, the front of each radio. I'm gonna use my
stylus from my tiny essa. So this one here, this is the D
seventy four. And this one actually has more color in the keys than this
one does. So I was I actually like the color scheme on the seventy
four better than the seventy five. This one has red around the enter and
what we would call the trackpad, okay, and it has yellow and white
on all the buttons. This one is blue and white on all the buttons,
and there's no colors around the track pad. So other than that,
it's pretty much the same. You've got digital dual or digital and mode right
there low and menu right there. So if you hit function, it activates
the blue part and then if you hit the just the button by itself,
it activates whatever the white part is. So like we're in VFO mode right
there. Put it in VFO mode like that, I can go to VFO
mode, I can go to memory mode. And I can go back to
VFO mode like that, just a single click of the button. I can
change tone here. That's ct dcs D slash zero dcs out I think that
is, and then turn it off and then back to tone tone squelch.
But if I want to set the tone, I have to go function and
T select and then I can set the tone squelch right there, and it
says T select on the eight key, and it says tone on the eight
key. And again the white text on the key is the single press and
the blue text is the function plus single single press. So that's how you
do that. Around the side here, I still have the original I was
always curious about this rubberized covering that goes over the side of the radio,
but I still have my This is still the original one on my D seventy
four, so I've never changed that out, never had to do anything with
that. The main difference here is that this is micro USB right here,
and this is DCN thirteen point eight volts right there with your proprietary plug.
Okay, and this is USB C of course right there and thirteen point eight
volts with through proprietary plug. I believe I should have checked that before I
rolled the camera. Okay, I went and grabbed my charger. This is
the Kinwood charger for the D seventy five, the one for the D seventy
four, which I don't know where it's at. I've got it somewhere.
I don't know where it's at though. It's the one that I cut and
put powerpools between the tip and the end here. But this one says output
is twelve volts at zero point five amps, so it should work fine,
and it fits fine in this This is the D seventy four here, and
it fits fine in that socket. So it'll go in both radio. So
the charger the AC chargers are interchangeable between the two radio, so that's good.
But this one does have USBC. Now, I tried to plug it.
The battery was pretty much dead when I got this radio, and I
tried to plug it up to USBC and it did charge it, but it
was very slow, so I ended up plugging this up anyway, the twel
volt charge is going to be a lot faster. That is. Basically the
only difference between the side is that this port right here is USBC, This
port right here is micro USB. I think at one point in time,
I had said in a video that you could charge this when via micro USB,
and I think that that is wrong. You cannot charge this when via
micro USB that I have found. I was thinking my ICM ID fifty two
you can charge via micro USB, but this one does not charge via micro
USB. So this really the only thing that this port is good for is
for data transfer like programming, software, firmware updates and whatnot. So anyway,
so there's the back of it right there, same battery pretty much.
It's got Kenwood k n B seventy five LA, which is a seven point
four volt, eighteen hundred and twenty million hour battery. That's the D seventy
five. The D seventy four has same battery KNB seventy five L, same
battery eighteen hundred millionm hours eighteen twenty millionm p howers this one. So the
D seventy five has twenty millim hours larger battery than this one. So basically
the same battery. There's that, and then this side over here has the
power button is round instead of square. The monitor and PGT and all that's
the same. Knobs on the top are the same volume knob is here.
The inner knob is the volume knob right here, and then this one top
one is the channel knob of VFO nob. For those interested in external antennas,
it's an SMA female on top of the radio and an SMA male on
the antenna itself. So that's a walk around the entire thing of the radio.
So I'm going to go into the menus. I wanna see what the
menus look like. On each one. There's nine items you can get in
here, and this is the same nine items. So on this seventy four
it's t XRX top left, t XRX memory is next, audio file is
next far left. On the second row is GPS. Middle of the second
rows, APRS digital is the far right. On the second row, FM
broadcasting, micro SD card and configuration. I have noticed a couple of different
things on this one, if I can remember where they are, let's see
back. Let's go there. I think it's on APRS actually, so if
you'll look right here, this one has a digipeate option, which we knew
that. We knew that the D seventy five had digitpeat capabilities. So if
you go into the APRS menu, hit menu, go into APRS and scroll
down to the second to the last thing, which is menu five to eight
something five eight zero is that menu? That menu does not exist in the
D seventy four. The D seventy five has the digitpete. So you can
set this up as a digipeater, and you can set it up if you've
got like, say you've got well, say you've got both of these radios.
You can set this one up as a digitpeter in your vehicle with an
external intent and have it digitpeat your APRS signal that's beginning from this radio or
from your YAZUFT five or some other APRS capable HT perhaps the ANYTNE eight seven
eight, And you can digitpeat signals farther out away from your zone wherever you
are, with an antenna that works better than the antenna on the radio itself,
because this one has a digitpeat functions. The digipete and the USBC were
the main differences between you, and it seems like there was a third difference
to and I can't remember, but you can go back and watch the video
I will post right there. I had to point that way right there because
we did an interview with Kim Wood Aham mentioned of twenty twenty three and they
told us all about this radio. So so far, I'm pretty impressed.
I wish that the micro SD card. I'll show you guys that real quick.
If you want to see it, think that, think I put it
in this one. So yeah, So here's your micro SD card right there.
Micro SD card is not recognized, of course not. I just ejected
it, thank you very much. So this is it's easy to back up
your stuff on both of these radios. So if we go in here to
this is the D seventy four I'm messing with right now. So in here,
mike, SD card export, okay, export right there. Let's just
do repeater list only and I'm going to click okay saving. Depending on how
many repeaters in here, this might be really fast and this might take a
few seconds or up to a minute or so. I've got a pretty good
number of repeaters saved in here. There we go. Information saving the data
is completed, okay, So we click okay and then and it's important to
do this, Okay, It's important to menu go back an SD card and
click on unmount execute Okay, okay, Now I can eject the card safely.
Okay, So like that, right, there. Okay, Now I'm
going to take the same card and put it into the D seventy five.
There we go. All right. Now I'm gonna go to menu micro SD
card there and I'm gonna try import of repeater list only no file is found,
so the file format, the file structure, something on whatever is different.
You can't import from one to the other, which is disappointing. I
was really kind of hoping to move everything from here over to here, but
such as life and that's not going to happen. So anyway, I will
be carrying this radio to what Well, first of all, let me ask
you, guys, what other videos would you like to see about setup on
this radio? We can do one with the programming software. I'm gonna get
a cable. I mean, this is just a USB cable, RIGHTBC cable,
I should say you should be able to take a standard USBC cable,
maybe a PD I'm not sure if it requires a PD cable or not.
I wouldn't think it does. It might be a little bit faster charging with
a PD cable. I have to test that we can do the programming software
and we can do some see if we can do some import and export from
the D seventy four to the D seventy five programming software. We can try
that. I want to do a setup of APRS on it. In fact,
you know what, I have not set up APRS on this one yet,
So let me let me switch back over here, because I would like
to set up APRS because this is what I will be beakinging from during the
weekend of Orlando. Him cash, All right, let's go. Let's see
menu, APRS basic settings. My call sign? Okay, what is my
call sign? Guys, you'll remember I don't remember sometimes. Okay, let's
enter there we go. Okay, now my call sign I've got icon set
is Kenwood. You can you can switch that here, Yaggy at qth okay,
cool Kenwood radio, and it gives you. It shows you right there.
You can kind of see the little icon right there in the camera.
Hopefully you can see that RV. Here's a good one, van, jeep,
truck, truck, eighteen wheeler. That's cool, police ambulance, fire
trucks. You can do all kinds of stuff here. I just chose Kinwood
because why not. This is the only Kinwood APRS radio that I'll have at
this show. So I'm just gonna choose Kenwood position comment in service returning.
You've got all these custom ones here, so I have yet to figure out
how to edit this custom one and I haven't read that. I haven't I've
just tinkered with the menu really status text and we can go here and we
can say. You know what I'm gonna say for status text, I'm gonna
say you have to get introduce it to go into that menu. So hamcation,
where's the I I keep losing it with all the different text on the
on the buttons. I haven't gotten used to it yet, ham cation for
Okay, use there we go, so text ham cash twenty twenty four.
That's where we're going to be back back. Okay, So status text one
good packet path. I change anything here. This is just what it was
set to by default. Type is new in wide one on total hops two
wide one dash one and why two dashed one. Okay, Data speed is
twelve hundred. You don't want to really change that to ninety six hundred.
Most people don't use ninety six hundred. So data band is a DCD sense
is busy. Transmit delay is two hundred milliseconds APRS lock frequency none of these
were checked for APRS locked when I got the radio, so I checked the
box for frequency. I don't really know what. I don't know what.
I know what the differences are, but I don't see anywhere in here where
you can change this. And I'll go read in the manual. So we'll
do a more in depth of video later. But position comment is custom zero.
Well, where do you set what custom zero is? I don't know
where to set that, so we'll go back and do that. So smart
beat it's got smart beaconing low speed low high is five to seventy miles an
hour. Okay, so you can adjust that if you want to fast rate.
Here we go. Okay, that's good stuff. There becon transmit control
method is auto. There's that QSY information status is off. Okay, that's
fine, Message notification DIGITPEDE, others, PC output okay, good. So
basic settings and okay, and GPS basic settings. You have to see built
in GPS is off. So if I turned built in GPS on, I
believe that will turn me onto U. Now GPS it says GPS locked,
So we're gonna let that do its thing and see if and I don't know
what the dash is. I don't know what the dash is because I'm gonna
have oots. Oh that's AM hah yeah, upper lower sideban and AM.
It'll receive all that stuff CW. It'll receive all that stuff like the old
one would, so you could receive HF upper lower sideband CW and everything on
the D seventy four D seventy five will do that too. So now I
have to go in there and figure out how to turn APRS on because I've
got it set. So I'm gonna tinker around with that a little bit more.
But you guys tell me because I haven't read. I haven't read the
manual yet, So I'm going to go into the manual. I'm going to
see a basic setup of APRS. It'll be I'll be begoning at the Rosenenn
International Hotel in Orlando this weekend, and while I'm at the show, and
while while we're at PODA on Thursday, I'll be doing all that this weekend.
So send me a message or whatnot, let me know if you're there,
and hope to see you in ham Cash this weekend. Check out the
links in the description. Blow for a main trading Company special shout out once
again to Richard for sending me this email. Let me know it's here.
I mean, I got his email blast. He didn't send me an email.
I got his email blast. I bought it and he sent it to
me. I had it two days later. All good. So seventy three
guys. See you guys in ham Kash twenty twenty four