AR-2500 Software

[Halfpint]

Seems that time, too many moves, and too many computer moves have finally taken their toll and my copy of the software, SCS-2, for my old AOR AR-2500 has `gone south' on me. Anyone know where I might be able to find, either on disk or downloadable, a new copy? (What I'd really like to find is something that would run under windows but even a DOS version like I originally had would be nice. Trying to manually program 62 `banks' of 32 `channels' is a *real* PITA! {WAN GRIN!})

 

[Highlander_821]

The AR2500 Yahoo group has the software that Ace used to sell for the AR-2500/TR4500. I am running it on XP and it is working OK. Just go to the files section and download it.

How do you like your AR2500? Did you get it from ACE?
I still use mine alot, it is not as sensitive as any other radio I have, but it does OK. I'm out in the country, which is nice, because its quiet here (RFI-wise)

 

[Halfpint]

The AR2500 Yahoo group has the software that Ace used to sell for the AR-2500/TR4500. I am running it on XP and it is working OK. Just go to the files section and download it.

How do you like your AR2500? Did you get it from ACE?
I still use mine alot, it is not as sensitive as any other radio I have, but it does OK. I'm out in the country, which is nice, because its quiet here (RFI-wise)

Thanks!

Now... *If* I can get Yahoo Groups to `recognize' me an actually let me in... (It keeps telling me that there is another user with the same `name', `password', *and* `email address' and I can't use mine because I signed up for a `group' several years ago and then when that group became quite moribund / dead / useless I quit frequenting it and eventually forgot about it and now can't remember just which one it was. {FROWN!} I haven't been able to get any help trying to clear up things and so haven't been able to get in anymore so I've pretty much given up on Yahoo Groups. The only thing I still use them for is one `mail list' and for that I don't even go `near' YaHoo except with my mail software.) If I cannot get anyplace I might get back to you and maybe we can go to email and you can send me an attachment?

As for where I got mine from... I got it as a present from a friend who picked it up from AOR directly. I don't know just exactly how he managed it but, he did. It came with manuals, and software, in Japanese, English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French! Over the years most of the manuals, except obviously the English one, have kinda `gone missing' on me. I only *just* found the original box when we were doing some `re-arranging' of one of our storage areas. We *may* possibly find the manuals when we are packing up our, *8* *deep* 4 drawer, file cabinets, between *trying* to keep thing `filed' around here, I've also got *all* the manuals I use for my electronics shop, when we get to that part of getting ready to move back up to Wyoming later on this year? (Maybe I'll also find the other language software, too!? {GRIN!})

 

[jack103]

I wonder if this software wiill run on my AR 2515??

 

[morfis]

Readme file in the archive doesn't say....and I never had a 2515 to know in what way the radio differred from the 2500

 

[morfis]

Further to my last. The AR2515 is an American derivative of the AR2002 and as such I think you will struggle to find software. I'm not aware of any that was available for the AR2001/AR2002.

The interface, if you haven't got one, is probably very rare and was based on an 8bit CPU which contained all the conversion routines. Control of the radio was using a terminal program rather than dedicated software.

HTH

DS

 

[Halfpint]

I wonder if this software wiill run on my AR 2515??

I doubt it. In a way it was a `dead end' with, as morfis mentions, it's dependance upon a `proprietary' interface device. It *is* an interesting radio and has a lot, either in actuality or as hints, of what we now see in current AOR units. Unfortunately, sort of `evolutionary' speaking here, it was a `dead end branch' because of the way they `executed?' the control interface among other things. (Heck! Even the 2500, in it's own way, is like that. Though being able to control it via a serial connection makes it `closer to the main branch' so to speak.) An `interesting bit of history' that I hope you enjoy having and using even if you don't have the interface.