September 2011 - Developers - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_devel] VX-3r death
by Richard Farina 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

Dan, I'm at a conference right now, and when I went to program my VX-3r with the hotel frequencies for monitoring it seems to have fried. Download went fine, upload went fine, progress bar went to completion, when the radio tried to reboot (as it always does after a clone read) it never came back up and can no longer power on. Have there been any changes to the vx3 or yaesu cloning code in the past few weeks? I took a quick look at hg and didn't see anything which seemed applicable and it could just be random coincidence (as I've purposely written bad data to these radios before and never got a result like this), but if there have been any changes recently they likely need to be reverted asap. Thanks, Rick WZ3RO

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[chirp_devel] Yaesu FT-270 and FT-277 Investigation
by Eric Muehlstein 11 Sep '11

11 Sep '11

Running the attached script I was able to extract data from my Yaesu FT270R and 277R. Both radios use a protocol similar to the VX series of radios. Connecting at 9600bps the radio first transmits an 8byte radio id. The radio listens for an ACK of "\x06" and then sends a 32byte block of data. A total of 190 blocks of data are sent in succession each ACK'd by "\x06".

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[chirp_devel] Yaesu FT-1802 and FT-817 support?
by Tom Hayward 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

I've got a Yaesu FT-1802 and FT-817 here I'd really like to use with Chirp. They are both cloning-cable radios, so I assume I could use the existing Yaesu cloning system once I figure our how the memory is mapped. My guess is that the FT-1802 is very similar to the FT-2800. Where should I start? Has anyone poked at either of these radios before? I know there is existing programming software for the FT-817, but I couldn't find documentation of the memory map. Tom KD7LXL

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[chirp_devel] test success
by jim gibbens 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

I did some testing with the 9/1 daily build and the Yaesu FT-2800m and Kenwood TM-271A. I had good success with uploads and downloads from both radios. The FT-2800 seems a bit sensitive to sequence, but worked fine as long as I followed the recommended procedure. I notice that the TM-271A isn't on the list of supported radios, so we might as well add it because it seems to work fine with this build. The list of supported radios is getting long! Thanks, Jim Givens KJ7F

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[chirp_devel] FT-50R
by Philip Loudin 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I intend to give a little attention to the FT-50 interface, but before I do, I'd like to know: What are the chances I will brick the radio? Are there irreparable mistakes I can make? For instance, for reasons that I am not clear on, it seems that every (Yaesu) radio programming tool requires that a cloned image be made of the radio, then updated, then sent back to the radio. If I mess up this image and send it back to the radio, can I render the radio useless? Thanks, Phil AG4AT

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