I was given a pile of TK-790/890s along with a Kenwood KCT-53U USB to Serial, a serial programming and a floppy disk with the DOS KPG44D software. The previous owner confirmed that the TK-790 and programming cables worked when he used them. However, I can not get the things to work. I've tried the DOS floppy all the way up to the Kenwood USB to Serial cable with Windows and KPG44D 2.10 and I get the wonderful "Please check all connection and communcation port setting" error every single time. I even tried the fire service software. I've tried different orientations of the programming cable and nothing seems to work. There were a couple of times the radio did display -PC- on the screen but that was sporadic. Is my cable bad or what am I doing wrong here?
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TK-790 Will Not Read
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