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Having aquired a Kenwood KT-6040 tuner recently I am looking for any
information on the XS interface option included on the rear of the
tuner especially interfacing to an AVR. 
Having tried reasonably unsuccessfully to find anything via Google I
wonder if anyone here has used this interface to control the tuner or
could at least point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
Doug Locke.

Try www.mods.dk

You may have to "register" but they have a lot of
instruction manuals online. Have you looked on the Kenwood
website?

Jim, KA7EHK

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:40:32 -0000
 "Doug Locke" <doug@whiteapple.u-net.com> wrote:
> Having aquired a Kenwood KT-6040 tuner recently I am
> looking for any
> information on the XS interface option included on the
> rear of the
> tuner especially interfacing to an AVR. 
> Having tried reasonably unsuccessfully to find anything
> via Google I
> wonder if anyone here has used this interface to control
> the tuner or
> could at least point me in the right direction.
> Thanks.
> Doug Locke.
> 
> 

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Thanks for the info Frank and Jim, will have a ferret through and see if I
can find something relevant. It seems strange that an interface present on
something as ubiquitous as Kenwood gear is so little generally known.

Cheers.
Doug.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Jim Wagner
  Sent: 30 October 2006 17:48
  To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Kenwood KT-6040 XS8 protocol


  Try www.mods.dk

  You may have to "register" but they have a lot of
  instruction manuals online. Have you looked on the Kenwood
  website?

  Jim, KA7EHK

  On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:40:32 -0000
  "Doug Locke" <doug@whiteapple.u-net.com> wrote:
  > Having aquired a Kenwood KT-6040 tuner recently I am
  > looking for any
  > information on the XS interface option included on the
  > rear of the
  > tuner especially interfacing to an AVR.
  > Having tried reasonably unsuccessfully to find anything
  > via Google I
  > wonder if anyone here has used this interface to control
  > the tuner or
  > could at least point me in the right direction.
  > Thanks.
  > Doug Locke.
  >
  >

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Doug Locke wrote:
> Having aquired a Kenwood KT-6040 tuner recently I am
> looking for any
> information on the XS interface option included on the
> rear of the
> tuner especially interfacing to an AVR. 
> Having tried reasonably unsuccessfully to find anything
> via Google I
> wonder if anyone here has used this interface to control
> the tuner or
> could at least point me in the right direction.

If your talking about the CD changer interface (I don't know how it is 
called in Kenwood-language), then the Mictronics page should be a good 
starting point for you:

http://www.mictronics.de/?page=cdc_proto#Kenwood

http://www.lompec.nl/KECANI.htm

HTH, Andreas

Thanks for all the help so far, the unit is a HI-Fi separate tuner and has
two green plastic sockets  on the rear labelled as XS.
The XS interface was to enable Kenwood hi-fi units to be controlled by a
"master" unit as far as I can judge and used an 8 bit serial protocol with
just a two wire connection. The interface on the cd changer is considerably
later/more sophisticated than this.
A very helpful person called Guido has given me some info and in the dim
past he used a PIC to implement this but cannot remember details.
As I cannot find a remote for the tuner It seemed like a neat dea to use an
AVR to translate infra red codes to XS codes to control the unit, never
anticipated the difficulty in finding out the details.

Thanks to all.
Doug.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Jim Wagner
  Sent: 31 October 2006 14:55
  To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Kenwood KT-6040 XS8 protocol


  No, this is an antenna tuner.

  Jim

  On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:06:54 +0100
  Andreas Stemmer <groovingandi@gmx.de> wrote:
  > Doug Locke wrote:
  > > Having aquired a Kenwood KT-6040 tuner recently I am
  > > looking for any
  > > information on the XS interface option included on the
  > > rear of the
  > > tuner especially interfacing to an AVR.
  > > Having tried reasonably unsuccessfully to find anything
  > > via Google I
  > > wonder if anyone here has used this interface to
  > control
  > > the tuner or
  > > could at least point me in the right direction.
  >
  > If your talking about the CD changer interface (I don't
  > know how it is
  > called in Kenwood-language), then the Mictronics page
  > should be a good
  > starting point for you:
  >
  > http://www.mictronics.de/?page=cdc_proto#Kenwood
  >
  > http://www.lompec.nl/KECANI.htm
  >
  > HTH, Andreas

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No, this is an antenna tuner.

Jim

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:06:54 +0100
 Andreas Stemmer <groovingandi@gmx.de> wrote:
> Doug Locke wrote:
> > Having aquired a Kenwood KT-6040 tuner recently I am
> > looking for any
> > information on the XS interface option included on the
> > rear of the
> > tuner especially interfacing to an AVR. 
> > Having tried reasonably unsuccessfully to find anything
> > via Google I
> > wonder if anyone here has used this interface to
> control
> > the tuner or
> > could at least point me in the right direction.
> 
> If your talking about the CD changer interface (I don't
> know how it is 
> called in Kenwood-language), then the Mictronics page
> should be a good 
> starting point for you:
> 
> http://www.mictronics.de/?page=cdc_proto#Kenwood
> 
> http://www.lompec.nl/KECANI.htm
> 
> HTH, Andreas

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Jim Wagner wrote:
> No, this is an antenna tuner.

Sorry, somehow my first association with Kenwood was car-hifi. I should
have had a closer look before posting...

Kenwood is one of the "Big Three" (Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom) who manufacture 
amateur radio equipment.  I have some of it sitting right here in front of 
me!

Zack

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Andreas Stemmer wrote:

> Jim Wagner wrote:
> > No, this is an antenna tuner.
> 
> Sorry, somehow my first association with Kenwood was car-hifi. I should
> have had a closer look before posting...
> 
>