Kenwood TH-D72A Instruction Manual

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APRS – 15SELECTING YOUR STATION ICONAccess Menu 3C0.Select an icon which will be displayed on the monitorsof other stations as your ID. You may select an icondepending on your current location.• It is important that the icon conveys the operational status ofthe station as well as the SSID. You can display and set thefollowing icons for the TH-D72.KENWOOD (\K) Eyeball (/E)Lighthouse (\L) School (/K)Satellite (\S) PC user (/L)SUNNY (\U) Balloon (/O)RADIO (\Y) Police (/P)ARRL (\a) RV (/R)RACES (\c) SHUTTLE (/S)Gale Flags (\g) SSTV (/T)HAM store (\h) Sailboat (/Y)WorkZone (\j) Person (/[)Speedpost (ValueSingpost) (\m) DF station (/\)Triangle (\n) WX (Weather station) (/_)Small circle (\o) Dish Antenna (/`)Tornado (\t) Bicycle (/b)Wreck (\x) HOSPITAL (/h)Sheriff (/!) Jeep (/j)Digipeater (/#) Truck (/k)GATEway (/&) Mic-E Repeater (/m)Aircraft (/') Node (/n)Red Cross (/+) ROVER (/p)Home (/-) QSO Repeater (/r)X (/.) Boat (/s)Red Dot (//) Truck (18-wheeler) (/u)Fire (/:) Van (/v)Portable (Tent) (/;) Big Question Mark (\.)Motorcycle (/<) IRLP/EchoLink (\0)REILROAD ENGIN (/=) APRStt (\A)Car (/>)BBS (/B)Canoe (/C)APRS supports approximately 200 icons. It allows users toselect each icon by specifying a combination of two ASCIIcodes, for example, ! and /. One is a symbol code, andthe other is a table identification code (either /or \). If youselect “OTHERS”, use the following procedures:1 Access Menu 3C1.2 Select a symbol code, then press [ OK].3 Select a a table identification code.• Overlay Icon SettingFor example, to set the Digipeater icon to the letter “S”,select “Others” under the icon type menu, select “#” under“Symbol”, then select “S” under “Table”.Note:X APRS icon codes (symbols/tables) are sometimes updated. Youcan download up-to-date icon codes from the following website(as of September 2010):http://www.tapr.org/software_library.php?dir=/aprssig/dosstuff/APRSdosFrom this website, click on the aprsXXX.zip file (where XXX is 3alphanumeric characters) to download it. After downloading andextracting the file, a README directory is created, which containsthe SYMBOLS.TXT file (icon codes).X Set an icon that represents your operational status. (For example,setting an Aircraft icon or Balloon icon to a fixed station will causeconfusion when a station receives a beacon.)