On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:01 Andrew Errington wrote:
Ok, some partial success.
I know it's bad form to reply to one's own emails, but I ran VX2 Commander 3 more times. First time 95%, second time 99%, and last time 100%. Here's the short log from VX2 Commander:
Data Received. Length: 10 Data: 41 48 30 31 35 24 E8 01 00 24 First Block: [41 48 30 31 35 24 E8 01 00 24] ------------------------------------- CPU: 01 00 USA Mod Setting: E8 (Freeband) ------------------------------------- Sent: 06 Acknowledge... Data Received. Length: 9 Data: 06 E8 01 02 01 FF FF FF FF Second Block: [E8 01 02 01 FF FF FF FF] Sent: 06 Acknowledge... Data Received. Length: 32578 Data: 06 02 01 00 00 02 ... FF FF FF FF C9 FF 99 Third Block: [02 01 00 00 02 03 ... FF FF FF FF C9 FF 99] Time: 46.58594 seconds. Calculated Checksum: 99 Checksum OK. VX-2 data downloaded successfully! Port closed.
The progress bar was a little jerky. Should it be smooth? Also, it took almost a minute. Should it be faster?
My radio is still sitting showing 'TX' on the display. After cloning is it supposed to go to normal operation, or show 'DONE' or 'FINISH' or 'OK' or something? Or should I just turn it off?
I tried the cable *without* the diode, but it didn't work, so I'll keep it there for now.
Now that I have established communication I need to hack on chirp. Remember, so far, all I have done is copied the VX7 code to VX2r, and verified the baud rate. If I run it I get a progress bar (hooray!) then 31 seconds later an error: Checksum Failed [0592-0610 (@0611)]
Progress.
73,
Andrew ZL3AME