I use either new alkaline or freshly recharged NiMH
AA cells and have tried Groan's application on several
different PC's also launched from the hard drive and off of a diskette.

After the ERROR message and a loss of everything in the R-2
Shutting down the PC and powering it back up reloading the
application and a fresh file from a 3.5 "diskette it will eventually load up
into the R-2
It's similar with the other application, but the BIG difference is NO LOSS
of existing memory contents of the R-2., when it fails to load up a file!

It seems to happen after opening a file into ether application form a
diskette,
then modifying the file, with a R-2 loader application, then trying to
transfer this new file to the R-2.
Jim
Bob Parnass wrote:

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:07:20 -0500, Jim Mac Donald wrote:

I've had similar problems with the ICOM IC R-2
When trying to load a file with free ware into the R-2, it gives a
message,
"ERROR" thatr comes up on the R-2's display. Then after turing the
power off and
ofback on "CLEAR" shows up on the display and every thing in memory is
dumped.

I try to use the application that came with the computer cable,
it will set the "CLONE" mode for the file transfer automatically in the
R-2 and if the file transfer crashes
the memory contents in the R-2 are not lost....

Jim,

I don't know which software you are using for the ICOM IC-R2.
My experience is that a cloning operation will fail if
the radio's batteries are weak. This is especially true for the ICOM
and Yaesu portables which are powered by 2 AA cells.

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Hi Jim,

I wrote tk2 software for the ICOM IC-R2 and you're
more than welcome to use it. tk2 is free, open source
software.

I use tk2 on Linux, though tk2 works on Linux, MacOS X, and
Windows, too.

You can use tk2 to read the image from your radio and save
it in a file before you write anything to the radio. It
requires a "2-way" level shifter cable, e.g. the stock
ICOM OPC-478,the Purple Computing cable, RT Systems
cable, etc.

I don't warrant tk2, but it won't cost you anything and
it's available from http://parnass.com

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003
05:12:05 -0500, Jim Mac Donald wrote:

I use either new alkaline or freshly recharged NiMH
AA cells and have tried Groan's application on several
different PC's also launched from the hard drive and off of a diskette.
....
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