[chirp_users] Kenwood TK-762H

[Tim Billingsley]

I will check that as time allows and I bet you are correct asI do not
believe any of these old men light up any longer. I will advise as time
allows.

73

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <pavelmc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tim, sorry to hear about your heard issues.
>
> Can you please confirms that the cable interface is working? (it looks to
> me as a interface problem)
>
> Also, your radios has the LCD backlight on?
>
> There is a know issue with this radios about this: usually the kenwood
> interface for this radios take power from the radio not from the PC, and
> the power is taken from the same rail the LCD leds are powered.
>
> For some reason with time (or a mic cable short) a medium power resistor
> burn out in the main board and get the front panel without +12V, that not a
> problem to the normal operation as it works on +5v, but the backlight gone
> off and the programmer has no power to feed from and always fails to
> operate.
>
> Can you check that please?
> 73.
>
> El 22/07/16 a las 09:32, Tim Billingsley escribió:
>
> I apologize for the long delay.    With health issues and an amount of
> tracel out of the way I have just tested 4 radios. 2 TK-762 and 2 TK-762H
> none worked. The CHIRP options of TK-760G & TK-762G appears to read from
> the radio then throws the error
>
>
> ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>     self.__radio.sync_in()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760.py", line
> 410, in sync_in
>     self._mmap = do_download(self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760.py", line
> 254, in do_download
>     open_radio(radio)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760.py", line
> 226, in open_radio
>     raise errors.RadioError(msg)
> RadioError: Radio refuse to enter into program mode after a few tries
>
> ERROR: ----------------
> ERROR: Clone failed: Radio refuse to enter into program mode after a few
> tries
> ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: Radio refuse to enter into program mode after
> a few tries ---
> ERROR: None
>
> ERROR: ----------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> 73 Pavel CO7WT.
>
>
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