Icom IC-F410 programming from DOS & USB

[tomtomhoward]

Hi,

I am struggling with programming a pair of Icom IC-F410, which I think use the CS-F300 software and program from DOS.
Due to the age I'm having to run the program in a virtual machine (XP Pro on VirtualBox), which again is running this program in DOS.
Are there any particular settings the USB cable need in Device Manager to be compatible with DOS?

I've got a OPC-592 USB cable. I've used this same VirtualBox setup to program some IC-F4002, a IC-F210S and even managed to program some IC-F3 in DOS but just cannot get the DOS program to communicate with the IC-F410 for the life of me. The COM port opens but the radio doesn't respond.

 

[zrock]

Some radios are just fussy that way. If they originally were programmed with a serial cable you may never get it to see the USB. That's why good shops always have a old computer hiding in the back.. I have a few I gave up on

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[buddrousa]

USB and DOS do not play together very easy unless you are a software writer.

 

[tomtomhoward]

You wouldn't believe it, but although I can't get it running under a Windows XP virtual machine in a OSX environment, installing the shaky Serial-USB drives for OSX 10.14 and running it in a DOS emulator directly from a modern version of OSX actually programmed the thing.

It wasn't helped by the fact the radios had Inhibit Read set, but it is helpful that the IC-F300 software distinguishes between a few different error codes between not being able to open the serial port and the transceiver not responding, which helps.

 

[andrewsorama]

im having the same problem. I've installed Dosbox and got the software up and running. when I clone the radio, it says no cable. I have tried both com ports, and no luck. which driver did you use for Mac OS?

 

[tomtomhoward]

From here

Products

Mine at the time was version 1.6.1 dated 10182017 looking at my downloads folder but I haven't got the PKG file any more I can see, but 1.6.2 is on there
I was helped by the bottom bar (where it says Cloning Complete), saying a different error for no cable and no response from radio, forget trying to program the radio at first and get it to give the "radio no found error"

I had to edit the Dosbox conf file in /LIbrary/Preferences as well, to include the following:

serial1=directserial realport:tty.usbserial
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled


I was going to write up how I found the tty.usbserial name but it was basically Method 1 here:

Installing a USB Serial Adapter on Mac OS X – Plugable

 

[andrewsorama]

I did figure this out on my own after much trial and error. Thank you for getting back.