Programing a Tk840

[Johnpayette]

First I want to thank you all for the help instead of smart ass remarks you get on the other forums. I have programmed several Tk880's because I was getting them for $50 and selling them for $100 after I program them. Most of the wrecker drivers want cheap radios. Now all I can find are TK880s that people think are made of gold. So I have a Program setup for the 880's and the 8180. Now I was shipped an TK840 and want to know if I can copy the frequencies to KPG47d without having to retype every frequency. It looks like Kpg47d doesn't have a space for the name of the channel?

 

[buddrousa]

Not any way that I know of I have always do it the old fashion way but others on here may know a trick I do not.

 

[AM909]

The Import and Export options on the File menu can be helpful to at least take care of some of the hard/error-prone frequency/tone entries. They are somewhat compatible between different versions of FPU. For example, I exported test.itm from KPG-89D for a TK-8180:

KENWOOD FPU
[Export Info]=KPG-89D Version  1.30
[Radio Type]=LTR
[Radio Band]=UHF
[Language]=English

// Conventional Data
$$,CNVDATA,ZN,CH,RXF,TXF,RXSIG,TXSIG,NAME
$,,1,1,450.11250,455.11250,67.0,69.3,NameA
$,,1,2,452.87500,457.87500,123.0,110.9,NameB

I was then able to import that file into KPG-166DN for a TK-D840 with some warnings, but the freqs and tones came through fine. Some combinations might not work as well, but if you export from the target software and then look at the file with a text editor, you can usually see what you need to edit in the source software's export file to make it compatible with the target software's import.

 

[Johnpayette]

I don't see import or export on by clicking on file

 

[AM909]

In KPG-89, on the File menu, choose Export. Then, in KPG-166, on the File menu, choose Import and select the file that you exported from KPG-89. Looks like the TK-840 uses the really old KPG-25 that I can't even run. I don't have a KPG-47 either, so no idea on those – sorry.

 

[N5XPM]

First I want to thank you all for the help instead of smart ass remarks you get on the other forums. I have programmed several Tk880's because I was getting them for $50 and selling them for $100 after I program them. Most of the wrecker drivers want cheap radios. Now all I can find are TK880s that people think are made of gold. So I have a Program setup for the 880's and the 8180. Now I was shipped an TK840 and want to know if I can copy the frequencies to KPG47d without having to retype every frequency. It looks like Kpg47d doesn't have a space for the name of the channel?

One thing to check is whether the 840s are narrowband.
I believe there is a Wideband version and a narrowband version of the 840.
I don't believe you can change it in the programming software.
If you put a Wideband model on a narrowband frequency, it won't sound good and it is not FCC narrowband compliant.

 

[wd8chl]

One thing to check is whether the 840s are narrowband.
I believe there is a Wideband version and a narrowband version of the 840.
I don't believe you can change it in the programming software.
If you put a Wideband model on a narrowband frequency, it won't sound good and it is not FCC narrowband compliant.

In other words, illegal for Part 90.
There may have been a "N" version of the 840, but I would expect them to be very rare.
Programming is another issue. The software for the TK840 is KPG-25D. I'd have to check, but it's probably DOS based, so you'd need an old computer.
Someone mentioned KPG-47D. That is for the TKR-840 repeater.

 

[Johnpayette]

I will just put it on fleabay she was suppose to send a TK880