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Kenwood TH-D72 - [Remote Control]

john@undisclosed.example.com (john) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:15:56 +0000

Kenwood TH-D72

Remote Control

The TH-D72 can be used to remotely control a TM-D710. This allows remote control of VHF Frequency/Memory Channel, TX power, CTCSS/DCS tones and to enable/disable cross-band repeat.

The remote control function uses specific DTMF sequences to instruct the TM-D710.

To enable “Remote Ctrl” mode :

Select the correct UHF uplink frequency to match the TM-D710
Turn off the TH-D72
Hold MR and PTT
Turn on the TH-D72

The display will show “Mobile Ctrl”

The TM-D710 must also be put in Remote Control mode.

On the TM-D710

select VHF mode on both sides
turn off the APRS TNC if it's on
set the left side to the wanted VHF Frequency
set the right side to the UHF Uplink/control frequency to match the TH-D72
- the first steps are done by selecting PM5 on my TM-D710
- make sure the left side/VHF is the “active” side by clicking the left volume knob
turn off
hold Rev button
turn on

The TM-D710 should now be in remote mode.

To restore normal operation repeat the same sequence of

Turn off
Hold Rev
Turn on

Successful commands sent to the TM-D710 will receive a “pip pip pip” revertive.

The commands are send using the TH-D72 keypad, remapped as:

1 = DCS On	2 = Tone On	3 = CTCSS On	A = Enter
4 = DCS Off	5 = Tone Off	6 = CTCSS Off	B = CTCSS/DCS Tone
7 = Call Ch. Mode	8 = VFO Mode	9 = Memory Mode	C = Repeater On
* = Down	0 = Power	# = Up	D = Repeater Off

to change VHF Frequency to 145.500
- 8 (VFO Mode)
- A (Enter) 145500 A (Enter)
to change to memory channel 2
- 9 (Memory Mode)
- A (Enter) 002 A (enter)
To turn on Cross-Band Repeat
- C
To turn off Cross-Band Repeat
- D

Once the TM-D710 is in the correct condition - VHF Frequency, tone, power, cross-band repeat - it's possible to restore the TH-D72 to normal operation and use it to access the cross-band repeater and use DTMF tones as normal (eg. to control another system via the repeater). Just exit “Mobile Ctrl” mode on the TH-D72

Turn off
hold MR and PTT
Turn on

You should be back in normal operation mode.

Obviously, to control the TM-D710 again (eg to disable cross-band repeat) simply go back to Mobile Ctrl mode in the same way, and send the required commands.

Documentation

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Kenwood TM-D710 - [Remote Control and Cross-Band Repeat]

john@undisclosed.example.com (john) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:00:54 +0000

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Kenwood TM-D710

Service Mode to adjust TX Powers

To access Service Mode
- Make 6-pin data plug with pins 3 & 6 connected
- Plug into Data Socket on Main Unit
- Power up while holding Left 2 Function buttons
To set powers, rotate main knob to find “HPWR V” etc.
- Note current settings of all 6 parameters
  - HPWR V 216
  - MPWR V 148
  - LPWR V 137
  - HPWR U 225
  - MPWR U 106
  - LPWR U 83
- Adjust each to achieve required power (Press PTT, Look at Power meter, rotate Main Knob with relevant figure selected…..)
  - New settings (high power set to keep current below 10A)
    - HPWR V 172 → 25W (current 6.5A)
    - MPWR V 148 → 10W
    - LPWR V 137 = 5W
    - HPWR U 133 → 20W
    - MPWR U 102 → 10W
    - LPWR U 83 = 5W
- Power off
- Remove plug
- Power on

Remote Control and Cross-Band Repeat

See TH-D72

Documentation

tm-d710g_all_en.pdf

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Getting back into radio - [Other bands/modes]

john@undisclosed.example.com (john) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:02:36 +0000

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Getting back into radio

I've got the radio bug again

HF

New HF antenna - simple vertical on a 10m Sota-Pole after the old Racal mast holding up the Inverted-L collapsed this winter
- improved ground/radials (6/4/25)…. more work to be done
Going back to “the old days” where I used 'phone more often
Putting aside the CW keys/bugs for a while
- and also digimodes put to one side
New HF Rig : FT-891 for SSB and 10m FM 'phone operation
Portable “go box” with G90 being re-assembled
- New 7m Sota-Pole for portable operation

Other bands/modes

DMR back online at home
- Full Duplex 2-timeslot hotspot
- Anytone 878
2m APRS I-Gate running again GM4SLV-2
VHF and APRS mobile GM4SLV-9 with TM-D710

— John Pumford-Green 06/04/25 08:31 BST

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Home

My digital Commonplace Book

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) ¹⁾ are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books ²⁾.

This is a rambling collection of notes and information, meant mostly as a memory aid and a handy place to keep things

I've been using Dokuwiki since around 2022 and much of the information is now out of date - I don't always update things when they change.

I very much doubt if anyone else apart from me will ever see it, or find anything helpful, but if anyone does see this… go on, amaze me with an email to w2w <at> murena <dot> io

RSS There's an RSS feed available https://g4slv.info/dokuwiki/feed.php

I've enabled the “Discussion” function to allow interaction with readers. Feel free to add comments on the “Discussion” tab present on each page in the Wiki and Blog.

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I am resurrecting my gopher sites

I plan to move my blogging activities to gopher exclusively soon. I don't think anyone reads this wiki/blog on the WWW so I don't see what I'd lose by moving to gopher. In fact I'd probably gain readers, once I make some contacts with other gopher users.

Point your gopher client at gopher://g4slv.cloud or gopher://tilde.pink/1/~g4slv

Gopher clients:

lynx
gopher
bombadillo
phetch
sacc
kristall

I have a rudimentary gemini “capsule” at tilde.pink too - but I don't think it'll get much attention. gemini://tilde.pink/~g4slv/

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Diaries - [Diaries]

john@undisclosed.example.com (john) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:17:52 +0000

Diaries

I write this in the hope that anyone reading it might be inspired to start diary writing if they don't already or to continue, and to discuss their process, if they do.

I like to store memories on paper, for later. Mundane daily life or exciting events….

What is a diary as a rule?

A document useful to the person who keeps it.

Dull to the contemporary who reads it…

…and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Walter Scott

I keep a diary

I started in 1992, my mid-20's but then I let it lapse after a few inconsistent years of intermittent diary writing. Looking back the snatches of life I recorded from those days are (to me) fascinating and I regret not having kept it up.

I started bullet journaling in 2016, a few days before my 50^th birthday.

After about a year of this small A6 format *bullet-points-with-longer-bits-and sketches-every-now-and-again* I started *proper* daily diary writing later in 2017. Bullet-journaling is still one aspect of my practice, but not for task-management - just for remembering what I did.

I've been at it ever since.

I'm 60 now, so that's 10 year's worth of life captured, in 46 A-5 sized Volumes (I'm now on Volume 47)

My general process

I write short bullet points at the beginning of the day, and add others if necessary at other times. These can be quickly scanned when searching for things at a later data.
I do small sketches (usually pen & ink & watercolour) of little things that will jog my memory later

I write a long-form entry each morning telling the story of the previous day, usually between 2-5 pages, after the bullet-sketch-quick-view page(s)
I stick in ephemera
- cinema tickets
- photographs
- till receipts
- bus tickets
- labels & tags from significant purchases
I write longer angsty brain-dumps on whatever topic is on my mind, to try and think-through something that's bothering me

In more bullet-journal style…..

Things I track

I keep track of various regular occurrences
I keep track of purchases, online orders etc
I keep a record of medications and medical treatments and consultations and symptoms

I keep track of the scores of our almost daily chess games

I note the weather each day
I track what days I work (I'm self-employed, so it's a bit variable)
if I've walked the dogs
if I got to bed before 11pm
I track if I cooked tea
if I went swimming
I note the family finances each week
and the electricity meter reading
and heating oil level and when the last delivery was
I note when I last changed the cooker's propane gas bottle
and when I last had a haircut (in the kitchen, by my own hand, with clippers)
and when the dog last had a haircut (at the groomer's for the sum of £60, every roughly 6 weeks)
I note the deaths of *“significant”* celebrities

I get through an A5 Leuchtturm hard-back in around 9 weeks.

My motivation?

Everything can be interesting when viewed later, from the future, even my own humdrum life.

I can now look back at almost 10 years of my “middle-age” life, in my 50s.

When I see the first frog spawn of the year…

When the car broke down, how often I've agitated the septic-tank to break up fat-blockages (yes, indeed, the joys of isolated rural living). I can find that time when we kept pigs, or the dog had a cruciate ligament rupture (and the subsequent repair & recovery).

And there's the strange blank period of a couple of months in mid-2018, when I'd had a heart-attack and I seemed unable to write anything in my diary about it (or anything else). Until I was back to normal again. I think I felt that I would remember everything anyway, without writing it down. I'm glad I did write a quick precis of the events of those weeks, even if it took a few months to get it down on paper.

I'm inspired by Mass Observation, the diaries of Alan Bennet, the writings of Simon Garfield, the passionate call-to arms in Irving Finkel's video (see below).

Indexing

In December 2023 I decided that I need a way of finding old entries/events/facts etc. so I started an Index…. more later in a blog post…

Finding Things In A Diary

Influences

Alan Bennet

Writing Home
Keeping on Keeping on
House Arrest

Simon Garfield

Wartime Mass-Observation diary collections
A Notable Woman. The diary of Jean Lucey Pratt.
- Jean was one of the Mass Observation diarists in the Wartime collections above (anonymized as “Maggie Joy Blunt”), but Jean also kept a separate diary covering her whole life, starting in 1925 aged 15 until she died in 1986.

The Great Diary Project

The wonderful Irving Finkel mini lecture on You Tube Rescuing unwanted diaries gives a feel of why I think capturing everyday life, in ordinary peoples' diaries, is important.

The result of Irving's discovery of the importance of diaries is the The Great Diary Project

The Man Who Saves Life Stories

The American Diary Project

There is a similar project in the USA The American Diary Project

Anne Lister

Now well known after the BBC dramatization as “Gentleman Jack” - Anne Lister lived in the 18th Century, was a land-owning woman (unusual) and most famously, gay.

Her diaries were written partly in a “secret” code, to hide the more personal aspects.

They were researched and sections published in 2 volumes by Helena Whitbread.

Anne Lister

I've read the first volume, and it's a fascinating insight into life in the 1820s - leaving aside the sexual aspects - just the practicalities of life, the leeches and quack medical treatments. The amount of walking needed to get anywhere, the poor diets (even for the wealthy). The physical discomfort tolerated (even by the wealthy).

John Gadd

I recently discovered John Gadd and his diary.

He seems to have kept a very similar style of journal to mine - writing daily in one book storing EVERYTHING, writing, photos, tickets, labels…. and a record of his day, his thoughts and only touching on “world news” if it particularly meant something to him.

He called it his “Omnium Gatherum”.

He died aged 90 on 2020, after keeping his diary consistently since 1947, really settling on its eventual format in the early 1970s. His diary was a memory-aid, as is mine, but of course it also captures lots of other things, mundane at the time but over a lifetime the mundane becomes the historical, and illustrate how life changes.

I'd love to see the books and look through the pages, and see how he indexed everything to make it searchable and to find anything within a few minutes.

My Diaries

Book of choice: Leuchtturm1917 A5 Hardback Dot Grid
Pen(s) of choice : Lamy Safari EF nib, TWSBI Eco and Pigma Micron 02
Fountain Pen Inks of choice : Diamine Eau de Nil & Platinum Carbon Black
Watercolours of choice : Winsor & Newton Cotman Sketcher Pocket Set with the China White swapped for some Payne's Grey instead.
Shop of Choice : Cult Pens

Some pics:

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Kenwood TH-D72 - [Remote Control]

Kenwood TH-D72

Remote Control

Documentation

Page Info

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Kenwood TM-D710 - [Remote Control and Cross-Band Repeat]

Kenwood TM-D710

Service Mode to adjust TX Powers

See also

Remote Control and Cross-Band Repeat

Documentation

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Getting back into radio - [Other bands/modes]

Getting back into radio

HF

Other bands/modes

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Diaries - [Diaries]

Diaries

I keep a diary

My general process

Things I track

My motivation?

Indexing

Influences

Alan Bennet

Simon Garfield

The Great Diary Project

The American Diary Project

Anne Lister

John Gadd

My Diaries

Some pics:

More Pics

Further Reading

On Indexing

General

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