From: "Steve Forst" To: Subject: Re: Upgrading the Kenwood TS590 firmware. Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011 8:23 AM Bob, Tnx for posting this. I got brave last night and did the update. All went well. Bought mine in June, and I found I was running v. 1.03. After the update, I restarted the update program just long enough to confirm that v. 1.06 was installed, then canceled out. 73, Steve KW3A On 12/27/2011 9:00 AM, Bob, K8LR wrote: > I sent the following instructions to Tom, WB8TYJ, and he suggested that they > might be helpful to others, so here they are. > > Instructions For Upgrading TS590 Firmware > > 1. Download and unzip the 1.06 software. > > 2. Turn on the 590 and then start the software so that you can set the > right comm port. > > 3. Turn off the 590 and hold in the memory in key while pressing the power > button. > > 4. Hit the update button in the arcp software. At this point, you can use > your jaws or mouse cursor to check your old and new version numbers. > I think you have to say ok one more time on your pc and then the upgrade > begins. You can monitor the progress with your jaws cursur, but I wouldn't > do it too often as you don't want to do anything that might mess up timing. > > 5. When the upgrade is finished, turn off the rig and exit the software. > Unplug the usb cable from the rig temporairily and then turn on the power to > the 590 while holdig inthe a=b > key. Hit the a=b key one more time to do a full reset. > > 6. Once you do that, you should be running 1.06. Be sure to back up your > rig settings before doing the firmware upgrade using the ARCP590 software. > Write your saved data back into the radio, and you should be in business! > > I forgot to mention that the arcp590 program doesn't seem to save all > settings. When you use the program to save or restore settings. > there are three check boxes that you must check or those parameters are not > saved or restored. One thing that I noticed was that items that were set > with front panel controls like vox delay and mic gain were not remembered by > the arcp software even though I had all check boxes checked. > Values in the menus and memory positions were restored faithfully! > > > Bob, K8LR, k8lr@charter.net > > >