How to remove ProTalk from TK-3402U16P

[W7GH]

I have a customer who had been using Kenwood TK-3402U16P radios with ProTalk. I learned from the KPG-159 thread that ProTalk is essentially preprogrammed frequencies that are already licensed, which is especially helpful for small "itinerant" companies. (Itinerant means that they don't have a fixed location.) The customer is also using Motorola RDU-4100s, which also have pre-programmed frequencies.

The customer, which is an itinerant construction and logging company, recently got a state-wide license for five frequencies, and they'd like us to reprogram their Kenwoods. As I understand the KPG-159 thread linked above, I need to put non-ProTalk firmware in the radios in order to program non-ProTalk frequencies. Can anyone tell me how to do that?

 

[W7GH]

BTW I tried reading the radios with the KPG-159DN software, and I got the error message "Ensure that Model Name and Market Code are correctly entered." The Model Name choices for the software are "TK-2402V [VHF] K" or "TK-3402U [UHF] K".

 

[W7GH]

Never mind—the five frequencies in the customer's license are in the table of 90 frequencies that can be programmed into the TK-3402U16P from the front panel. No firmware replacement is required.