Kenwood tk 730 program help!!!!!!!!!!

[amr_emt_907]

Hi, i have a Tk730 and would like to program it to be used as a scanner in the recieve only mode but i called Kenwood and they said that i have to take it to the local radio shop to have it programed. and that they dont sell the software. now does any one know were i can get it because i dont think the shop will program it for me and i want to be able to listen to CDF. and the reason i got this over a scanner is because i got it for cheap.


any help is appreciated thanks

[Zack08]

As long as you want it programmed for receive only, I dont see why your local shop wouldn't do it for you...

[pogbobo]

good news and bad news ... I can tell you that you need kenwood (DOS lol) software KPG-7D to program that radio ... bad news is it's going to be hard to find ... you might want to just call around to your local shops and ask them if they will program it for you, whats the worst that can happen? they so no, and you call someone else good luck to ya

[Zack08]

Even more bad news.... If you actually find the software, you'll need to build an interface cable and RS232 to TTL converter. As pogbobo said, you should just check all of your local shops, because looking for the software and building an interface is a lot of work just to put a couple channels in one radio.

Good luck

[obijohn]

Everything you need is available on ebay. I have seen very nice programming cables and
programming software cd's available for reasonable amounts.

Good luck!

[N0ZQR]

You will need a computer that does DOS only to correctly run the program. Will not work correctly in a Windows shell. I use an "old" 286 laptop!

Ron

[firetaz834]

That will probably be the hardest part finding the computer. I know I held onto some old equipment the was being sent out for donation.

[amr_emt_907]

Thanks guys i was able to get the program and it works on my windows xp desktop computer very nicely.


i appreciate all your help

[tinyfirefighter]

the good news is ebay sells everything you need for about 20.00

Originally Posted by Zack08

Even more bad news.... If you actually find the software, you'll need to build an interface cable and RS232 to TTL converter. As pogbobo said, you should just check all of your local shops, because looking for the software and building an interface is a lot of work just to put a couple channels in one radio.

Good luck

[duster]

Originally Posted by N0ZQR

You will need a computer that does DOS only to correctly run the program. Will not work correctly in a Windows shell. I use an "old" 286 laptop!

Ron

I run mine on a P-II laptop on Windows 98, running in a DOS window. It works fine. I program an 830, 840 and 790 on this system. Can't get it to run on anything newer than Windows 98, though.

[code3cowboy]

I program the few 30 series radios we still have in service with my new laptops both in a window and by running a split hard drive with dos 6.22. Either way works fine for me.

[FLATGUNPHIL]

What Code 3 says...
I use a P3 laptop using XP PRO and it works fine for me.

Phil

[duster]

Originally Posted by code3cowboy

I program the few 30 series radios we still have in service with my new laptops both in a window and by running a split hard drive with dos 6.22. Either way works fine for me.

Ok, color me stupid, but... How do you do the whole split HDD thing, with a DOS section? I'd love to upgrade my laptop, but I'm so afraid of not being able to run DOS-based RSS that I'm just babying my old one along.

[BaLa]

just get a new laptop anyways...
keep the old one..problem solved.

[code3cowboy]

Originally Posted by duster

Ok, color me stupid, but... How do you do the whole split HDD thing, with a DOS section? I'd love to upgrade my laptop, but I'm so afraid of not being able to run DOS-based RSS that I'm just babying my old one along.

The county IT gal told me she did not know how to split a hard drive, I had to teach her.

Its really quite easy, you have to partition the drive, then I have the C drive loaded with part of windows 98 and it boots straight into DOS, and the other side is XP Pro.
Upon startup I am greeted with a selective boot screen where I go to XP or DOS.
I have built menus in DOS so I can go to kenweird, motorola, ge, or other stuff, but that is more for convenience.

Multi boot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I also have an old 95 laptop just for programming, and a bench computer running 95 for programming.

[officerfrasher]

Originally Posted by N0ZQR

You will need a computer that does DOS only to correctly run the program. Will not work correctly in a Windows shell. I use an "old" 286 laptop!

Ron

That's not completely true. I use a new Dell laptop with Vista and a USB cable I got on eBay and have no problems programming my TK-730H and TK-830H.

[n8mrc]

how do you select the comport. I think you only can have com1 or com2, do you have to use a serial port or can you use a USB port? I have the software just need the cable, btw I have a Kenwood TK-730 160 Channel radio and my pc is Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.80GHz 1.79 GHz, 640 MD of Ram Running Win XP

[ScannerDude244]

Originally Posted by firetaz834

That will probably be the hardest part finding the computer. I know I held onto some old equipment the was being sent out for donation.

Yeah that's the hardest part old PC! like everyone said software can find all over the web cables are ebay for cheap!

[n8mrc]

I have the software and the cable to program the 730...