Kenwood TS-990S firmware v1.04

Kenwood · Released Aug 23, 2013 · First seen Sep 6, 2026

Source: kenwood.com

v1.04 is not the latest firmware for the Kenwood TS-990S: the current version is v1.26 (September 25, 2023). Go to v1.26

In short — summary by updatemystuff.com

Resolved RTTY garbled text and ARCP-990 power detection issues.

  • RTTY function no longer garbles certain character sequences
  • ARCP-990 correctly detects power-off when low-power standby is enabled

Written from Kenwood's release notes, which are printed in full below.

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What's in this update

The following symptoms are revised.

  1. When se​nding certain character sequences using the built-in RTTY function, garbled text might be encoded.
  2. When Advanced Menu No.22 "Standby State Low Power Consumption" is set to "On" an​d the TS-990S is turned off by the front panel power switch, the ARCP-990 may not detect the power off status correctly.

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