Hey Dan, Marco,

1. Had to edit all patches to remove the a/ and b/ from the file paths
    
Apply with "patch -p1".
So the -p1 will allow for fuzzy matches on the patch's paths?


3. FT857 patch didn't work per email "[chirp_devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] Set
valid_cross_modes as needed"
I assume we have to have the file first but it doesn't apply cleanly
either way
    

You need to apply his original patch (FT857 pre alpha) first, which adds 
the ft857 file (note in the patch 0/4).
Ah... now I see what happened.  In Thunderbird, I see that original "ft857 pre alpha" email as coming from:
Marco Filippi IZ3GME <iz3gme.marco@gmail.com>

Yet the other patches sent from Macro with the subject of "[PATCH x of 4] in the subject line shows as being from:
IZ3GME Marco <iz3gme.marco@gmail.com>

I have no idea why Thunderbird thinks these are different email addresses but that's why I missed that first patch as I was sorting on Sender for that first email address!  Lovely.  Anyway... I'll give this a go later today.

--David