Can you send us a debug.log please?

From what you are telling it's a typo from my side or a new variant (p and P are not the same at driver level)

Please check this link and upload a debug.log file to analyze.

https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_To_Report_Issues

Also if the radios has the original back label (under the battery) please take and upload a photo of that label to check the correct model for each one, there is a well known trick of the fleet owners in which you may get a firmware overwritten radio...

73, Pavel, CO7WT.

The requested files.

It could be a modified firmware, but I couldn't find a normal one to try to download in it.

They are both blind, 8ch selector on top and a volume control, no keyboard.
On the side are 3 buttons, ptt and the 2 smaller programmable ones.

I've the KPG56-4.0 software, it can read the checksum (C628) but every thing else leads to a check type error (see the screenshots)

I've have also a standard programmed TK-3301 on the normal 2x8 pmr channels, but it doesn't get any signal of the TK-360G, I can read out that with the propper kenwood software. So my cable should be good.

I've looked in the chirp kenwood TK-360G type array code, and the P3600& should be an E version. I've bought them quite some years ago from ebay and used them as a pair for quite sometime. Now I would like to use them with the TK-3301's so tried to program a matching set of frequencies...

I wouldn't mind to test out a "p3600" version instead of the "P3600" version, but bricking the unit's would be a pitty...

Hi to all.

Investigating the issue with the info from the pictures, logs, etc. plus a lot of service manuals I managed to get from a former Kenwood fleet technician here (also a Ham) I dare to say that it can be a model "E4" mentioned on one of the service manuals... and not covered in the actual chirp driver.

There is no support for it on the KPG-56D v4.22 software (latest version I can find) so it can be a custom model or a very recent one...

Attached there is a custom dev driver for you to test, instructions follows.

Download the file to your desktop¶

Fire Chirp and go to "Help" menu, once there tick the option "Enable Developer Functions"¶

Go to "File" and a new option "Load Module" will show, click it.¶

It will bring a open dialog in which you must find and load the file you downloaded to your desktop¶

Now Chirp has this custom dev driver loaded (just until you close it, the change is not permanent), try to read the radio now.

If it succeed, go to file and save a image of the memory of the radio, do not attempt to load the data back to the radio yet.

Now look for the debug.log (and the new image file if succeed) and attach it to this post for me to inspect it and do some validation before try to modify it or upload to the radio.

With the Image loaded on chirp you can inspect and check if all pieces are there, but please do not modify it yet.

Cheers, Pavel.

Pavel,

I had an other try, there is a debug.log attached of that, I noticed that I got every first try I got the still the "p3600& contains no P3600" after switching it off and on again. In the debug log there a 3 runs of that. with each 3 tries to download.

I also had a peek in the debug log and noticed where the error was comming from, so I modified the code on rule 498 and removed the not from the if statement, and so continue only when there is a time mismatch :-)

Then I could download an copy from the memory, it's attached, with the debug log of that session and a screenshot from the settings in chrip.

Kind regards,

Michel

Got it, Will process in the night.

Cheers.

Hi to all watching this, I have made some progress in the weekend.

I found a few bugs and made some changes to the tk760g driver (a lot of radios affected) and now this particular model has support.

Attached there is a dev driver to test, please follow the procedure I described in a earlier post and try it, if the download works as expected then the upload must be safe to do, try that to. After testing it please report either failure or success to include the changes on main Chirp.

+Interesting facts:+

• This particular radio (with no LCD) appears to be a very early model or a custom one, as in the mem space it has a very early date and a OEM soft version of "1.0" and all other models in the family has a LCD.
• It appears to be a kind of "E4" variant at firmware level.

+Changes made to the driver:+

• Improved the ID detection (removed a char) to fix a bug when the radios use/used a Trunking board (affect all other models supported)
• Fixed a bug for some variants (radios with less than 32 channels) that does not allow banks (affects a bunch of other radios)
• Included a special case TK-360G variant with no LCD (distinguished by a lower "p" in the ID, when all others use lower case letters)
• PEP8 completion.

73 Pavel CO7WT.

Pavel, Thanks for the great work!

I had to change the length of the string on row 495 from 4 to 5 to get the ident working. Got first the error "no p360, in P3600 or p3600"

I've attached the first try debug log and a second try, with the version with the 5 char string selection
And the img file it produced, how does that look to you?

Kind regards, Michel

Well done at finding the 4/5 typo.

It looks fine to me, all working as expected.

Did you tested uploading the same downloaded image to the radio? if that works, then change some settings and channel data and upload it, it must work flawlessly by now.

If that works the we are ready to go mainstream. I'm waiting for your tests to send the patch.

73 Pavel CO7WT.

Pavel,

I've just tried to upload the downloaded config, but it stops at block 52, with a checksum error :-<

Attached is the img file, screenshot and the debug.log file

Kind Regards, Michel

Hi Michel,

Please test this dev (with a lot of debug power)

Do as usual to load the module.¶

Download a radio image.¶

Try to upload that unmodified image to the radio a few times looking for success (at least 3 times) don't worry for radio bricking, you are overwriting the same data to the same place.¶

Grab the debug.log and post it here for inspection.¶

Regards, Pavel.

Hi Pavel,

Attached are the downloaded image file and a debug log, with debug=true on, with 4 tries to upload to the radio.

Thanks for the work!

Kind regards,

Michel

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