Looking for the BEST programming software to program the memory
channels for the Icom IC-706MKIIG and Yaesu FT-817.

I've seen a few options and downloaded and tried one but didn't like
it. Some of the other options cost money, which I don't mind, and/or
require special cables that cost money, which I also don't mind, but
I'd like to know ahead of time which ones are the best.

Thanks...

I was told you could not program the memory channels for the IC-706MKII with
PC software. Did I get bad info? All my radios except this one I have
software to program from a PC


"Rick" wrote in message
...

Looking for the BEST programming software to program the memory
channels for the Icom IC-706MKIIG and Yaesu FT-817.

I've seen a few options and downloaded and tried one but didn't like
it. Some of the other options cost money, which I don't mind, and/or
require special cables that cost money, which I also don't mind, but
I'd like to know ahead of time which ones are the best.

Thanks...

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:23:29 -0600, "ken foshee"
wrote:

I was told you could not program the memory channels for the IC-706MKII with
PC software. Did I get bad info? All my radios except this one I have
software to program from a PC

Good afternoon, Ken.

No, I'm sure you can program the channels in the IC-706. I had a
program that would do that, sort of ... but it wasn't much good and I
ended up getting rid of it. Can't remember which one it was, now.

What are you using for your other radios? If I could find a decent
one for my FT-817 that would be helpful.

Have you looked at FTBasicMMO for the FT-817? I have used it with the
FT-847, and it will program the channels in all the ways which the
radio will, but much more easily. Good support from the author as
well. The interface isn't flashy, but it works.

http://www.g4hfq.co.uk/ftbasic.html



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Alan
WA4SCA

On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:57:05 GMT, Alan WA4SCA
wrote:

Have you looked at FTBasicMMO for the FT-817?

Good evening, Alan.

Thanks for the pointer. Found it, downloaded it, tried it, bought it.
After a few false starts that were fixed by a few sessions of RTFM, it
works great.

As for the IC-706, someone said that you can't program the memories in
that radio. I find that that is ALMOST true, but not quite. You can
program the memories ... barely ... but you can't read them AND you
can't set the PL tone frequency, all you can do is turn PL tones on or
off.

It's the most retarded PC interface to a radio that I've seen in a
very long time.

I don't know what the engineers at Icom were smoking when they
designed that but I'm thinking of calling them to see if they saved me
some. :-)

I am evaluating TRX Manager to write the memories in the 706... there
are some serious limitations there (only a few of which are the fault
of TRX Manager and they're not too hard to work around) but so far it
appears to be the only game in town.

I'm probably going to write a program that reads the CSV files
generated by FTBasicMMO and writes them to the 706, that's probably
the best I'll be able to do with that radio.

It's the most retarded PC interface to a radio that I've seen in a
very long time.

It was enough to make me decide that I wouldn't buy that particular
radio. Decent programmability (memory upload/download at the very
least) is a must!

I don't know what the engineers at Icom were smoking when they
designed that but I'm thinking of calling them to see if they saved me
some. :-)

Jimson weed is bad for you.

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