Kenwood
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Kenwood is a audio/radio manufacturer. Some of their amateur radio transceivers contain GPS receivers for APRS operations.
TH-D72
Also sold as TH-D72E (Europe) and TH-D72A (Americas).
- Price: around CA$500
- Trackpoints: 50000
- Battery life: 3-4 hours
- Connection: Serial, USB
- Chipset: SiRFstarIII
- Good things
- Can transmit positions over 2m amateur radio band.
- The SiRFstarIII chipset gives a good accuracy
- Bad things
- Very slow to acquire on startup. Seems to do cold start on the receiver every time.
- Large
- Heavy
- Expensive
- Needs an amateur radio licence to operate.
- Summary
It's a very nice handheld VHF/UHF radio, but only a middling GPS for OSM use.