Programming, Software, IC-F3020, IC-F5010, IC-F5020 By OZ1CBZ posted August 3rd 2016, 4:38 AM Thank you I downloaded the above software 3V4 and successfully programmed two ICOM IF-F5023 radios as copy was too old to program them.

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I've been a radio amateur for about 50 years (currently KE7ZZ). I haven't been active that entire time, but I've always had a few interesting radios around, home-built in the early days, and increasingly exotic as I matured. I recently decided there's no point in having any radios apart from Icoms. This may sound rather narrow-minded, but during my, I watched every single piece of electronics give up the ghost at least once, and I began to rank radios by how long they lasted after a gallon of cold salt water was splashed on them. In this informal ranking, the Icom score remained relatively high, hence my current prejudice (and that's what it is — a prejudice, the choice of a lazy mind).

A digression: don't misunderstand — I didn't deliberately splash salt water on my radios, but there's no need to arrange such a stress test while sailing on the open ocean. Given enough time, nature will take care of that for you.

And there is no safe location for a radio — at some point in a long ocean voyage, salt water will get everywhere. And not just salt water. One night as I lay asleep, sailing along in the tropics under autopilot control, a flying fish flew across the top of my boat's cabin. But this unlucky fish hit an open port cover and was deflected down into the cabin, into my sleeping bag, where I lay asleep in a more or less unclothed condition.

You cannot imagine the shock of being awakened from a blissful sleep by the feeling of a greasy, cold, wet flying fish against your bare skin, struggling to get away from you by thrashing even further down into your sleeping bag. End of digression. Having only one brand of radio greatly simplifies any software projects one might consider.

I recently decided to create a way to program all my radios with suitable frequency lists, in a fast, efficient way. In an earlier project called I used a spreadsheet to contain the lists and to program the radios. Later on I created a for the Icom PCR1000, unfortunately, this radio has a lot of traits not common to other Icom radios, so the code isn't very portable. Then I wrote a more general controller program called, which created a sort of virtual control panel for a number of different Icom radios.

But RadioComm is more of a user interface than a radio programmer, and worse, it only runs on Windows, something I've more recently come to regard as inexcusable. So I have been working on a better, more universal radio programmer, one that would work with most Icom radios, one that would program specific radios with particular sets of frequencies and modes, and that would run on both Windows and Linux. This is the result — IcomProgrammer.

IcomProgrammer is more oriented toward database management than user interface, in fact, it runs on the command line. You tell IcomProgrammer which radio you want to program, and it fetches the required data tables and programs the selected radio, as fast as possible. You can create any number of frequency tables, and you decide which tables are applied to which radio. Marine Radios M-700Pro 0x02 M-710 0x01 M-710RT 0x03 M-802 0x08 (Any) 0x00 The user may add as many such lines as are required to represent existing radios and data tables. There is nothing magic about the radio names, they are only used by the human. But the hex radio IDs are special — each Icom radio has a unique hex ID that needs to be entered so the instructions for that radio are routed correctly. Use the list on this page to find your radio's hex ID, or find the code on the Web for those radios not included in my list.

The frequency table list can contain any number of entries. Each entry in the list represents a shortened form of the data file names to be located in the frequency data directory. For an entered name of 'my_frequencies', IcomProgrammer will look for a file named 'frequency_data/my_frequencies.csv'. There is a special, optional pseudo-filename of 'E' that can be included in the list, as shown in the example list above. This name tells IcomProgrammer to erase any unused memory locations as the last step in the programming of the radio. One final note about radios and frequency lists.