<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><img src="cid:ii_kcq7a60z0" alt="image.png" width="212" height="471"><br></div></h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">High-end ham radio gives up its firmware secrets</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Dan Maloney KC1DJT</strong> writes on Hackaday that <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Afshin Salehi AG5OW</strong> and <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Travis Goodspeed KK4VCZ</strong> have dumped and partially decoded the Kenwood TH-D74A’s firmware<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The radio, a tri-band handy talkie with capabilities miles beyond even the most complex of the cheap imports and with a price tag to match, had a serial port and JTAG connector. A JTAGulator allowed him to probe some of the secrets, but a full exploration required spending $140 on a spare PCB for the radio and some deft work removing the BGA-packaged Flash ROM and dumping its image to disk.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the Hackaday article and watch the video at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://hackaday.com/2020/07/14/high-end-ham-radio-gives-up-its-firmware-secrets/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://hackaday.com/2020/07/14/high-end-ham-radio-gives-up-its-firmware-secrets/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Twitter links<br style="box-sizing:border-box">&quot;Hash&quot; AG5OW <a href="https://twitter.com/BitBangingBytes" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://twitter.com/BitBangingBytes</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Travis KK4VCZ <a href="https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed</a></p></div>