Data structure for the ICOM IC-R2 Scanner - OoCities

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Cloning ICOM Receivers (using the ICOM IC-R2 Handheld Scanner as anexample.)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.......................................................................................................... 3Data Representations....................................................................................................... 4The ASCII Character Set................................................................................................ 4The ANSI Character Set................................................................................................. 4Hexadecimal Numbers................................................................................................... 4Binary Numbers............................................................................................................ 5ASCII Represented Hexadecimal .................................................................................... 5Background to Cloning an ICOM Radio. ......................................................................... 6Background.................................................................................................................. 6The CI-V System .......................................................................................................... 6Understanding the Hardware Interface. ............................................................................ 7Icom OPC-478 Interface. ............................................................................................... 9Icom CT-17 Interface..................................................................................................... 9Differences between the OPC-478 and CT-17 Interfaces.................................................. 10Other designs.............................................................................................................. 10Communication Parameters. ......................................................................................... 11Icom Command Language. ............................................................................................ 12Commands Used when Cloning. ................................................................................... 12Transferring Data. ....................................................................................................... 14Example line of data.................................................................................................... 15Calculating a Checksum............................................................................................... 16Example Calculation:............................................................................................... 16IC-R2 Memory Structure .............................................................................................. 18Methodology .............................................................................................................. 18Accuracy and Completeness ......................................................................................... 18Overall Structure......................................................................................................... 190000 - 0C7F : Memory Channel Data. ........................................................................... 19Frequency Formats .................................................................................................. 21Special Format – Broadcast band with 9kHz separation................................................ 21CTCSS Tones Table ................................................................................................ 220C80-0DFF : Scan Edges. ............................................................................................ 230E10-0E5F : VFO (Band) Data. .................................................................................... 230E60-0E6F : Common Parameters................................................................................. 230E70-0E77 : Values on Start-up.................................................................................... 250E80-0E87 : Values on Start-up.................................................................................... 260E88-0E8F : Channel Mode Values............................................................................... 260FA0-0FAF : User Comments ...................................................................................... 260FB0-0FBF : Icom Version Details ............................................................................... 27Appendix A : ICOM's ICF Disk File Format .................................................................. 28Icom’s .ICF format...................................................................................................... 28The First Two Lines. ................................................................................................... 28ICF File Coding. ......................................................................................................... 28Appendix B - ASCII Table............................................................................................. 30Appendix C - ANSI Table .............................................................................................. 302
AcknowledgementsI developing this document, I have made extensive use of resources from theinternet. I wish to acknowledge:•=•=•=•=•=•=•=•=Bruce A Pope for his document “Everything you always wanted to knowabout the IC-R10 that is not in the manual.”(http://people.we.mediaone.net/baptpdc/r10/r10.htm). In that document,Bruce describes his decoding of the Icom IC-R10 scanner.Ekki Plicht (http://www.plicht.de/ekki) who maintains a site with a lot ofIcom programming material. Ekki has also written the CIVTest program(http://www.plicht.de/ekki/software/civt.htm) that allows commands to besent to an ICOM radio and displays both the commands and theresponses from the radio.Dave (AA6YQ) (http://www.ambersoft.com/Amateur_Radio/index.htm),author of the CI-V Explorer program (http://www.qsl.net/civ_commander)and other Icom computer control resources.Goran Vlaski (http://www.digital-laboratory.de/) for his freeware ICR2programming utility and his Icom Clone Utility that can back up and restorethe IC-R2 by storing clone files on disk.Gommert Buysen (http://www.butel.com.nl) for his Advanced RadioControl (ARC) program that can clone the IC-R2, and the iclone2 programwhich can back up and restore the IC-R2 by storing clone files on disk.Contributors to the IC-R2 discussion forum athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/icomr2.Icom for the DOS based software for programming the IC-R2, and their1991 guide entitled “CI-V : Icom Communications Interface - V ReferenceManual”Raihan Kibria (http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/~rkibria) for his frhed (Free HexEditor) program. This easy to use and free utility makes an easy task ofexploring, comparing and changing data files in either ASCII or Hex.BlakkeKatteSeptember 20013
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Page 6 and 7: Background to Cloning an ICOM Radio
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Page 10 and 11: Differences between the OPC-478 and
Page 12 and 13: Icom Command Language.Icom uses a s
Page 14 and 15: $E5 Termination code.Send to radio
Page 16 and 17: Starting memory address (e.g. 30Hex
Page 18 and 19: IC-R2 Memory StructureMethodologyTo
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