Kenwood: Help with iGate with Raspberry Pi and TH-D7

[ve2ihs]

Many thanks for this forum's member, I get much help.

I have a raspberry Pi 3 with a TH-D7 lying around I would like to set as a IGate, I could test my HT's around the area and doing my abouts. I'm in a center of a zone where coverage is sporadic and hard to get on 5w. The D7 has an TNC like you know and I have loads of cables, I'm sure I'll get something running.

I've searched a lot and can't find any tutorial on how to set this pecular setup(pi3+TH-D7). Do you, any of you very knowledgeable fellows, have a full tutorial on how to achieve this? I can setup the pi but I'm not versed in the art of linux nor direwolf. I would need a step by step tutorial with the sudo command and all.

Many thanks

73
ve2ihs

 

[tweiss3]

Not sure exactly how tech savvy you are, but this is the writeup I used to build mine, written by a local that knows what he is doing: Building an APRS IGate | Wayne Technical Fanatics

I did simplify it a bit, but this should point you in the right direction, modify as necessary for your hardware.

 

[ve2ihs]

@tweiss3 thanks, good start.

I failed to mention this will be a very local RX Igate.(not to disrupt messages or kill the hops)

That link will go into my bookmark but I believe it’s not that necessary, unless I’m wrong.

 

[tweiss3]

Keep the power low and keep the elevation relatively low. You may also want to turn off the digipeat function. Mine does not digipeat, but it does operate 2-way.