Marine Radio Ops Quick Start
Before setting up your Radio Control, check to see if you have everything you need:
- The radio cable you received with this software.
- A CD containing the Marine Radio Ops software.
- A compatible radio and computer (see Features and Requirements)
- A 1/8 inch stereo-to-mono adapter
Installation Instructions
- Attach the stereo to mono adapter to the stereo end of your cloning cable and plug that into the 1/8 clone jack on the back of your radio. See your radio manual for more details.
- Then plug the RS-232 end of the cable into an open serial port on your computer.
- Now that your cloning cable is setup, go into your radio settings and change the remote control input terminal to the clone jack. See your radio manual or the software manual for more details.
- To install the software from a file you downloaded, locate the first file on your hard drive and launch it.
- To install the software from a CD, place the CD into your CD drive. Locate and launch the SETUP.EXE file for the Marine Radio Ops software. (If you have the software on floppy diskettes rather than on CD, insert Disk 1 in floppy drive A:, click on you Windows "start" button, select "Run..." and type "A:\SETUP.EXE" in the Window and follow the instructions.)
After Installation
The first time you run the Marine Radio Ops software, you will be asked to configure the COM port and baud rate for your computer and radio. Press the OK button and the program will proceed to the next screen. Once the Radio Setup screen appears, be sure to check the following items.
- Select the COM port (serial port) on your computer where the RS-232 end of the interface cable is attached.
- Select the baud rate of the COM port. Typically this would 4800 for all radios.
- Choose the default NMEA address for the radio that you have.
- Type in the software's serial number that was given to you at the time of purchase.
Press the OK button. You are now ready to start using the Marine Radio Opsl software.
How to change the Remote Control Input Terminal on your Radio.
- Push [POWER] to turn power off.
- While pushing [ENT] + [1] on the IC-M700PRO and [FUNC] + [1] on the IC-M710, push [POWER] to turn power on and enter Set mode.
- Rotate the [GROUP] selector to select the ‘REM-IF’ item.
- Rotate the [CHANNEL] selector to the ‘PIN’ item. If you incorrectly select the ‘d-Sub’ item, you will get the following error message:
Pure Virtual function called @..\CPP_ALL\COMLINK.CPP, 241 Unable to continue execution
- Turn power off and on again to exit Set mode.