TK-780 and 880 programming Was: Got a radio n computer wont work with us 😡

[KF0AWL]

I bartered with a guy today and got a kenwood 780 and 880.
Have the KPG-49 installed and when I try to get the computer and radio to communicate it dont connect to communicate port.
Any help would be wonderful this is pissing me off

 

[mmckenna]

There can be a number of things that can cause this. Wrong software, wrong market code, wrong cable...

Give us some details to work with:
-Full- model number of each radio, photo of the tag on the bottom would be ideal.
-Full- model number/manufacturer of the programming cable
-Full- model number of the software, including version number

And tell us about your computer. Some of this older software isn't going to work no newer machines.

 

[KF0AWL]

Everything else works it just can't get a com port to link up.
I been chasing/googling this for hours doing anything I read to try but no luck

 

[kayn1n32008]

What error is the software giving you?

 

[KF0AWL]

When I go into 49 i get to the point were I tell it to read from radio and it doesn't have a com port to connect to.
Of course now that I'm on a different computer to try this one wont connect to internet 🤬🤬🤬👺👺

 

[mmckenna]

Tell us about the programming cable and how you are connecting?

 

[KF0AWL]

Programming cable it the one he had used to program it when he had it.
Its connected to front of the radio in the mic port. Once I pull up the 49 I plug in to USB turn radio on it comes on makes the new hardware noise but doesn't connect.
Sees the device is there but if I remember it says no drivers?

 

[KF0AWL]

Ok here is a step by step
I open kpg
Tell it to read from radio
X could not read from Communication port
If I click setup on top and communication port on drop down it comes up blank and unclickale

 

[KF0AWL]

I did it!
FINALLY FOUND THE DRIVERS TO MAKE IT OPPERATE!

 

[mmckenna]

I did it!
FINALLY FOUND THE DRIVERS TO MAKE IT OPPERATE!

OK, good deal.

If you haven't programmed radios before, remember rule #1: Read the radio and save the file. Always do that as your first step, that way if you accidentally booger something up, you can always dump the original file back in and have a place to start.

 

[KF0AWL]

Thank you!
Like I said I been trying to figure this out a little over 12 hours lol

 

[mrweather]

Almost always it's due to a USB driver issue.

 

[KF0AWL]

Ok one more question about this.
Its programed and all but is there a way to scan channels like my TM-281 mobile? Or is this a manual operation only radio? I got no instructions with it so I'm going into this blind and working off the cuff lol

 

[buddrousa]

There should be 4 buttons on the front on the 780/880
Here is what I do
A = ADD DELETE
S = SCAN

 

[KF0AWL]

I need to be more clear when I ask a question lol
So I'm up n running but the 880 just sits there. On my 281 ham mobile in scan mode you see it flipping channels as it scans but the 880 just reads - scan - on the readout.
Does this mean its scanning channels I have programmed in or?

 

[kayn1n32008]

I need to be more clear when I ask a question lol
So I'm up n running but the 880 just sits there. On my 281 ham mobile in scan mode you see it flipping channels as it scans but the 880 just reads - scan - on the readout.
Does this mean its scanning channels I have programmed in or?

Yes.

 

[KF0AWL]

Thank you.
I have a tendency to be thinking one thing n type what I think I'm thinking but not getting out what im wondering lol

 

[buddrousa]

When it receives a channel that will be displayed on the screen

 

[KF0AWL]

Perfect.
Thank you for helping with this.
I have never used one of these commercial type radios and its definitely the same but not.

 

[mmckenna]

Does this mean its scanning channels I have programmed in or?

I forget what term that software uses, but in one of the tabs there should be a setting that does something with display revert. It'll go into scan mode, but will show the channel you are sitting on.

Then again, if you are moving from the scanner world to this stuff, having it show "scan" might be useful.