Hi Emil
I have found a wee Perl script that extracts the EEPROM from Yaesu FT-8x7 transceivers via the CAT interface and outputs it as an ASCII hexdump to the console. This can be found here:
http://www.0xdecafbad.com/2009/08/ft897-eeprom-dumper/
No need to put it in clone mode either. :-)
Yes, we know that there are undocumented cat commands to peek and poke directly in memory but we considered safer to use the clone protocol. BTW on that site they confirm my suspect that 857 and 897 share the same memory map, that's why we are confident that you could clone your 897 using chirp 857 driver. Please give a try to "clone tx" from the radio. Naturally _you must not try_ to "clone rx" before being able to complete correctly the tx or you can erase all your setting including memories.
I used this today to extract the EEPROMs from my FT-817ND and FT-897D and have attached them here as a zip file. I figured you may find this useful for comparison as I have programmed both radios with the same local repeaters in memory, in the same order etc.
Hope this helps.
Yes it help! Thank I'll go through the image later
73 de IZ3GME Marco