[chirp_users] Kenwood TK-762H

Pavel Milanes (CO7WT)
Wed Aug 10 16:58:59 PDT 2016


Hi Tim, (I was off the grid by family vacations)

If the lights are off you have 90% chance of not having power to the 
interface, but, if you use a USB interface it may work... I have to 
check in the schematics but I'm pretty sure it will work with a USB 
programmer.

73 Pavel CO7WT


El 08/08/16 a las 11:35, Tim Billingsley escribió:
> 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 <mailto: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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