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Need programming cable for Icom R6 Sport Receiver
- Thread starter Mudfoot
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Would one of these work?
www.ameradio.com
unicomradio.com
Icom R6 SPORT 86 USA | Programming and testing
Built-in audio low pass filter, 150mW loud audio, DTCS and CTCSS tone squelch and reverse tone squelch, Auto power OFF, Reversible up/down buttons and dial knob
www.ameradio.com
Icom IC-R6 Programming Cable – Unicom Radio
unicomradio.com
As cheap, as can be.
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The only thing I can find between too fiddly cheap and the $23 unicom cable is a $7 one on ebay, but it comes with a DB-9 serial connection instead of USB.
Yeah, why do they do that. I bouble a new Uniden BCT15X and it come with a DB9. So far, I've went thru 3 different USB cables, downloaded tons of drivers. Can't get it to work. It's such a pain to manually program. I guess there's still thousands of frugal hams with their 35nyrar.old PC's
Could it be the age of the drivers? I don't speak computer well, but I remember similar trouble trying to program my motorola m1225. Its been so long since that time, but IIRC, the only way I could get the CPS to work on windows 7 was to install some 16bit stuff called otya128 or wineVDM or something like it.
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This is all I could find on my drive about it. Two VDM folders and an HTML with instructions. IIRC, I used the OTVDM folder because it worked better than the wineVDM one. Here is both and the HTML I used.
A word of caution. I have no clue how this will impact newer operating systems, so maybe use on an older machine you don't use every day or at least look into it.
A word of caution. I have no clue how this will impact newer operating systems, so maybe use on an older machine you don't use every day or at least look into it.
In a more recent backup, I found what I believe are newer versions of the two VDM folders. That's all I have.
and if it is an ftdi issue, here is a troubleshooting link I had saved.
