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I never had that happen to me. I have done several tk 2140 and 3140 radios with this mod and all worked great.

no problem!! I learned this from a comm tech for BLM on a wildland fire when they brought in a type 2 team and changed all the operating frequencies and I didn't have my laptop to change it with. Just thought I would pass it along.

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Yes the tk-280, and tk-380 are able to be feild programmed. You don't even have to use the DTMF key pad for programming. There is a resistor that has to be removed in order to field program this radio plus it must be enabled in the software. I will try to get some pic's on here of what diode must be...

sweet, glad to hear it. I love my vx900

I got mine from my dealer. They just sent it via email

you using DOS or windows? mine is 1.24 windows and it works great.

I have all the cables and the ce39 program but I was looking for info on the ck-9 programming key to program on the fly. there are a whole lot of lap tops on the fire line

Can you feild program a vx-900 with the ck-9 key even if the radio doesn't have a key pad? Kinda like the tk-290 radios from kenwood.

I was able to go back to the version before and restore this radio.

Last nite I was updateing some 290's. 1 of them was put into the firmware mode and programmed. the radio had a good battery on it and the pc didn't freeze but know the radio will not do anything. When the radio is turned on the display "says program" and when I toggle to the FW version the...

are the contacts clean? check to see if the low battery level is set to high in the software.

Anyone have know or have an idea of how much these things cost?

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check this link the tk 380 is the same as the tk 280 only it is the UHF version.

I am not real sure about the 180 and 3200 softwear, but the 900 uses ce39 to program. The cables you will need for the 900 is the vpl-1 and ct-70. I think you can get the vpl-1 with a a USB instead of the 9 pin serial. The ce39 will run in XP just fine.