M710 cloning question

[fairbank56]

Nothing needs to be changed in the radio menu. You need the rs232 serial port cable. The program is looking for serial port #1 or #2 whichever you have selected. Won't work thru USB.

Eric

[Borvaprops]

Eric, thank you for the heads up. Cable should be here tomorrow. Will let you know if I was able to clone or not.

Cheers

Gabe
S/V Rodeo

[Borvaprops]

Hello, just want to let everyone knows that my experience was with win98 and the 552 USB cable for cloning. Not possible unless I used a true rs232 port. Once I got the true serial cable I had no problems at all. Now I have a silly question. The ex1726 has a bundle with to application and a few INI files M710#01, M710#02...M710#12.
I ran the following command in DOS ex1726/expert than changed a bunch of things in the different pages saved the file and loaded on the radio. Said cloning successful. I still cannot program any HAM frequencies to transmit. I can receive in all frequencies but not transmit in HAM frequencies. WHen I try adding a HAM frequency in the 160 channel page simply goes blank.
Eric do you happen to have a modified ICF file that you would like to share?

Regards

[fairbank56]

Hope you did a clone read and saved it first so that you always have the original info from your radio? Anyway, do a clone read first. On the Freq. range screen, on the Tx 1st row, change the higher edge frequency to 29700.000, hit enter, arrow down one and press the space bar and then enter. All other values for Tx 2nd thru 11th go blank. The radio is now opened up for transmit on all freqs 1.6Mhz to 29.7Mhz. This will allow programming of ham freqs in the 160 user channels. There is another way to use ham freqs however. On the left side of the Freq. range screen we will change the ITU 18M freq range for the ham bands. There is usually nothing in the 18M group on these radio's. On the ITU 18M row, change lower edge to 1800.000 and higher edge to 29700.000 Go to ITUsimp ch screen. On the 18-1 row, change the Freq to 1800.0, mode to LSB, comment to 160MTR. 18-2 row, 3500.0, LSB, 80MTR. ...etc...etc. I'm a cw op so I start at the bottom of the band. Adjust yours to your liking. Go the the Mode screen and enable all modes. Also, on the common screen, make sure Freq. program is set to RX/TX. Now, to dial around on a ham band, go to one of your group 18 channels, say 40MTR, press the CH/FREQ button so the display shows receive freq on top and transmit freq on bottom. Press the CE button and use the channel knob to change freq in 100hz steps. When your ready to transmit, just press and hold the RX button and both frequencies will be locked in and you can transmit. This process only works when you are on one of the ITU simplex group channels. Now if your a really good techie, you can take the channel control out and apart to file down the two detent wheels inside so that the knob rotates much more smoothly, more like a true VFO control. Enjoy!

Eric

[Borvaprops]

Simply awesome info. Much appreciated. I love this sites. And yes I did a full back up of original info before starting to play and change settings.

All the best

Gabe
S/V Rodeo
A37

[t.young]

Originally Posted by btrayfors

The /RT is a pain. Had one here a couple of weeks ago and tried to clone it, using software, cable, and the same procedure I've used successfully on a bunch of 710's. Got the same error as you. Never could make it work. I suspect it requires a different cloning program, but not sure.

Wound up programming the darned thing by hand, while watching TV one evening so as not to spend too much time on it.

Bill

Hi Bill (From Mombasa Kenya)
I have tried exactly what you have tried, also the Manual way but no luck, is there a trick to the manual programming I only have one frequency to programme
Regards Terry

[btrayfors]

Terry,

My post which you quoted was almost two years ago (Nov 2010). Since that time I've successfully programmed several M710RT's, including one in my shop at the moment.

It does, indeed, require a different DOS program: EX2144.EXE

And, guess what: the ICF files for the M710 won't work with the M710RT...you need an ICF file which is specific to the M710RT.

I'f you're still in need, shoot me an email and I'll fix you up.

Email: bill at wdsg dot com

BTW, I've had wonderful experiences in Mombasa, and have some great pix of the beach and palms just south of there!

Regards,

Bill
WA6CCA