Icom IC-F4TR programming help

[Gecko6375]

Hi everyone, I work for a business that recently acquired 6 Icom IC-F4TR radios. I have the CS-F4TR software and cable to program it but, from all of my research, I have an older version of the software. I currently have version 1.3.1 and my understanding is I need the 1.6.1. Does anyone know where I can purchase this from? I actually ordered one from eBay and got another copy of the 1.3.1. So now I have two of them. Not much use and the vendor I bought it from said he did not have any other versions. I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I know it was discontinued a long time ago but these are decent radios and would love to use them with some of our other Icoms. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[jeepsandradios]

1.3 should still read and write the radio. What error do you get when you try to read it ? You are running the program in DOS correct ? It is not windows based.

 

[Gecko6375]

It just hangs on Preparing to read data from the radio.

According to the instructions it does say it is compliant with Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, and Millenium Edition. I have set the compatibility to several of those and the same things keeps happening. I have also tried running it from the command prompt and the same thing. Comport is set to 1 and I verified that is all good. Any ideas?

 

[mmckenna]

Been a while since I worked with those, but I do recall one issue was that the programming cable was a tight fit. It was really easy to not get it seated all the way. Double/triple checking to be 100% sure it's plugged in all the way fixed most of my issues back in the day. I remember having to push really hard to get it seated.

 

[12dbsinad]

Some of those also has accy jack issues, along with the F3/F4's. Try applying slight side pressure on the program cable jack while read/writing the radio. Back in the day I programmed many of these with bad jacks this way.

 

[mmckenna]

Some of those also has accy jack issues, along with the F3/F4's. Try applying slight side pressure on the program cable jack while read/writing the radio. Back in the day I programmed many of these with bad jacks this way.

Yep, good memory. It's starting to come back to me now.

 

[Gecko6375]

Thanks for the input. I tried that to no avail. I have two different cables and I tried that with both and nothing. I have tried running the software from the command prompt and I have set the compatibility to very possible OS and I keep getting a read error. The radios are a firmware of 1.5 and I remember reading, somewhere, that I will need a software version higher than the radios firmware. Hopefully, I can find a version of the software in 1.6 and try that.