[chirp_users] Kenwood TM-D710GA Issues

[Charles Hargrove]

I have been using Chirp since shortly after it came out.  Yes, I have
checked and that is not the problem.  If I can get a clue from other
users of this radio model, maybe something changed from earlier versions
of Chirp.

On 5/13/2018 11:12 AM, Dennis Wage wrote:
> Starting with the simple solution first. Click the down arrow on Port 
> and see if there is a different port.
> 
> I know with my Boafeng, if I plug the cable into a different USB port 
> the COM port changes also. And sometimes the old one will still be 
> listed and I have to manually move to the new port.
> 
> Try that first.
> 
> 
> Dennis M. Wage
> 
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> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Charles Hargrove <n2nov at nyc-arecs.org 
> <mailto:n2nov at nyc-arecs.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Well, a week has gone by.  I ran the comms for the 5 Boro Bike Tour last
>     Sunday with 34,000 bikes over 40 miles.  Since I could not get my D710GA
>     programmed for it, I had to use my Anytone5888 which has never given me
>     problems.  So I am back at the Kenwood problem tonight.  To start things
>     off, I hand programmed about 50 memories in the MCP software and did an
>     upload "in one go" without this "live mode" jazz.  Everything is working
>     perfectly.  Now I go to Chirp, go to Download From Radio and choose the
>     Kenwood on the same Comm Port as the MCP and ..... NOTHING!  Not one
>     channel downloads into Chirp.  Nothing on any type of scroll bar.  :(
> 
>     Can anyone who has used Chirp with the D710GA tell me anything?  No
>     armchair theorists please.
> 
> 
>     On 5/5/2018 3:49 PM, Charles Hargrove wrote:
>      > I am just looking for information that might help the programmers to
>      > institute the MCP protocol to avoid the problems that you alluded to
>      > before.  The goal is to get ALL of the radios to take a single
>      > programming dump and not cripple a few with "live" mode.  Obviously,
>      > the Kenwood MCP software can upload everything in one shot.  Why not
>      > get Chirp to do the same?
>      >
>      > On 5/5/2018 3:34 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
>      >> This is the live mode protocol. It has been implemented in Chirp for
>      >> many years.
>      >>
>      >> Tom KD7LXL


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