You may want to try the following:
CI-V commander
Procatwin
TRX Commander (demo)
YPLog & control
Your radio was listed in the descriptives, eithe directly, or by
manufacturer

Michael Agner's excellent page has more, as well as his program

Neville

"michael agner" wrote in message
...
Debbie - you can find lots of software links for the 8500 on my Strong
Signals Software page, which is at:

http://www.strongsignals.net/access/.../software.html

In summary, you have tk8500 (by Bob Parnass, uses the tck scripting
language), Deltacomm, Frequency Manager, Radiomax, possibly Radioctl,
Spectrum Explorer/Manager/Dominator, Radiocom, TRX-Manager and Visual
Radio.
I've written reviews of Radiomax and Radioctl; and TRX-Manager has the
added benefit of having a Yahoo group that discusses using this
software. My software page has links to all those packages, reviews and
the yahoo group. 73s and GL on your decision....Mike

goldilox wrote:
I am looking for software to Control the Icom IC-R8500 receiver. Does
anyone
know of such software & how I can obtain it. Icom makes such software,
It is
the RS-R8500, but it is a little cost prohibitive for me. So if anyone
has a
copy, I'd sure appreciate it if they'd pass it along. or any other
control
software that will work with this receiver. Thanks,

Debbie