The "Blue Wonder" from Kenwood suffers from a general problem: The display will fail almost for sure after some time of usage. Since there seems to be no more support from Kenwood, I decided to bring back my TM-V7 to life on my own with an external display.

German "Funkamateur" magazine published my article in 09/2010. Those of you that don't have access to that zine will find my manuscript right here as a PDF file, but be aware that it's rather large (1.4 MB!). Source and HEX file are available at the Funkamateur download aera for the public.

I have translated the German text to English and uploaded it as PDF, the result might not be of the same quality in language as Shakespear's work but I hope it's sufficient to understand what it's all about. :-)

Enjoy!

Here you'll get a quick look at the finished unit (click image to enlarge):