Case study

Kenwood KNS: documenting ARCP-590G radio communication

Kenwood KNS documents the ARCP-590G client's communication with a TS-590SG radio over serial and KNS TCP connections. The investigation compares Wireshark captures with CAT commands and records UTF-16LE encoding, connection sequences, cleartext authentication, and keepalive traffic.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2023-03-16
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Scope: The documented equipment is the Kenwood TS-590SG with ARCP-590G.
Scope: The analysis uses Wireshark and Hercules to compare KNS TCP packet contents with CAT commands.
License: GPL-3.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{arcp-590g-kns-case,
  title = {{Kenwood KNS: documenting ARCP-590G radio communication}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/stianeklund/ARCP-590G-Documentation}},
  url = {https://github.com/stianeklund/ARCP-590G-Documentation},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/arcp-590g-kns-case/}}
}

Plain text

Kenwood KNS: documenting ARCP-590G radio communication. https://github.com/stianeklund/ARCP-590G-Documentation (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/arcp-590g-kns-case/

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README.md GitHub · stianeklund/ARCP-590G-Documentation · Revision f33a845