[chirp_users] Kenwood TK-762H

[Jardy Dawson]

You don't say the error, but most problems come from having a fake Prolific chip. Go to Device Manager and check your comm port.  If it says Prolific, roll your driver to 3.2.0.0.  This can be found at Miklor.com.

Jardy Dawson
WA7JRD Ham Radio

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On Aug 11, 2016, at 14:30, Jon S <savageman208 at gmail.com> wrote:

anyone know why when i try to program my 857d that i get an error message when cloning?

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <pavelmc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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> -- 
> 73 Pavel CO7WT.
> 
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