Hi,
I'm completely new to 2-way, but I'm trying to jump into GMRS with a few old TK-380's. I applied for my callsign and spent a few hours on his forum during a 6 hour road trip riding shotgun for work, and now that I've got everything sitting on my desk... I'm having no luck.
I have three TK-380 Ver2 with full keypads and FCCID ALH24623110, which should be correct for the 450-490 Mhz spectrum. I bought a programming cable KPG-36U (probably a knockoff) which has the PL2303 serial-usb converter built in, and detects correctly with the tool on the Prolific website. It defaults to COM4 on my Windows 7 machine.
The radios all seem to only have one channel programmed at the moment, which I scanned at 470, and the displays read "R 0.05" at startup, and then "TA" on the first line and ">None" on the second line after startup. No knobs or buttons appear to have any functions programmed.
I have copies of KPG-49d v4.02 (circa 2003) and KPG-60d v2.00 (circa 2001) and have had no luck with either. When the radio model is input correctly (I think) and the Com is set to the channel reported for the serial-usb converter in device manager, I can get the radio display to read "Tuning" briefly when I click "Test Mode" from the Program menu. The radio then appears to reboot. After this I get "check radio type." When I attempt to read from the radio, I get "Please check all connection and communication port settings."
I've tried KPG-60d with similar disappointing results, and I've tried KPG-49d on a Windows XP machine with identical results... and I've tried two of the three radios I purchased with identical results.
Does anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong? If anyone has any experience with this USB cable if they could report back with their working serial port settings I could cross that off the list too...
I realize I'm as noob as they come, but hopefully I've put enough work in above that someone will take pity on me...
I'm completely new to 2-way, but I'm trying to jump into GMRS with a few old TK-380's. I applied for my callsign and spent a few hours on his forum during a 6 hour road trip riding shotgun for work, and now that I've got everything sitting on my desk... I'm having no luck.
I have three TK-380 Ver2 with full keypads and FCCID ALH24623110, which should be correct for the 450-490 Mhz spectrum. I bought a programming cable KPG-36U (probably a knockoff) which has the PL2303 serial-usb converter built in, and detects correctly with the tool on the Prolific website. It defaults to COM4 on my Windows 7 machine.
The radios all seem to only have one channel programmed at the moment, which I scanned at 470, and the displays read "R 0.05" at startup, and then "TA" on the first line and ">None" on the second line after startup. No knobs or buttons appear to have any functions programmed.
I have copies of KPG-49d v4.02 (circa 2003) and KPG-60d v2.00 (circa 2001) and have had no luck with either. When the radio model is input correctly (I think) and the Com is set to the channel reported for the serial-usb converter in device manager, I can get the radio display to read "Tuning" briefly when I click "Test Mode" from the Program menu. The radio then appears to reboot. After this I get "check radio type." When I attempt to read from the radio, I get "Please check all connection and communication port settings."
I've tried KPG-60d with similar disappointing results, and I've tried KPG-49d on a Windows XP machine with identical results... and I've tried two of the three radios I purchased with identical results.
Does anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong? If anyone has any experience with this USB cable if they could report back with their working serial port settings I could cross that off the list too...
I realize I'm as noob as they come, but hopefully I've put enough work in above that someone will take pity on me...
