Kenwood NX720/NX820

& TK7360/TK8360

You can now remote control your Nexedge radio both in a local LAN and over the Internet.

For the Kenwood NX720/820-series and the TK7360/8360-series radios, we have a Network Interface that connects locally to the radio and gives the operator a Virtual Control Head.

Functions

The Virtual Control Head gives you full control of the radio, just as if you were sitting in front of it. All buttons can be accessed from your touch screen, with the PC mouse or by short cuts on the standard keyboard. And the whole radio display is replicated on the Virtual Control Head.

The Virtual Control Head has an option to activate a numeric keyboard. This is useful if you send many selective calls or if you have many channels to select. For example if you use the radio for marine VHF channels, it is faster to select channel with two keys than to step up/down with the arrow keys.

The radio can simultaneously be both remote controlled and used as a standard radio with its control head, microphone and speaker.

All connections are made from the rear 15 pin connector on the radio.

32E-1A brochure can be found on the download page

NX720-1-1024x325Virtual Control Head w/o the numeric keyboard

NX720-2-1024x325-2

Virtual Control Head with the numeric keyboard active

Kenwood-NX720-1024x768Kenwood NX720 radio with
Network Interface and Cable Kit

The radio shall be programmed with:

  • GPIO Pin 10  programmed for external PTT active low. (Extended function, AUX-Tab)
  • The External PTT (voice) shall be connected to the MI2 line. (Extended function, Modulation Line-Tab (only NX-series))

Only NX-series: To get the audio in and out of the back connector, two jumpers needs to be moved in the radio. See the installation manual for details.

NX-series: Network Interface 3009/29
TK-series: Network Interface 3009/33
CableKit: 3116

Examples of use:

  • Local use when several dispatchers want to share one radio
  • Remote use where a dispatcher at one location want to talk to radio users at a different location
  • Cross patch between analogue radio and other two way radio, like Nexedge, DMR, Tetra or MPT
  • Cross patch between VHF/UHF

 

Supported radio models:

Please also see the other Kenwood pages.


Nexedge:

NX-720/820 E/GE/HK/HGK/HGK2

Analogue:

TK-7360/8360 E/M/HM/M2/HM2/HV

NX720-1Kenwood NX-720

System examples:

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Example with one radio remote controlled from one operator PC

Bild439-1024x714Example with two radios remote controlled from three operator PC´s

VCH-NX720-1024x658Virtual Control Head Functions