Hey Dan, Marco,

Ok, I'll try out the patches tonight assuming that I can get that RT Systems cable working under the FTDI driver:

   Dan: Two questions:

       1. To test the RT cable, do you know of a simple text string to send to the 857 to see if it's properly receiving and I get a known response back?

       2. I'm assuming I can download the newest nightly snapshot and apply Marco's emailed patches (except his "merge" patch) or do I need to use a different version of Chirp?

--David

I think that we need to wait someone (other then me) to test it before
applying the patches to the repository, just to be sure that is not my
radio the only one that works ;)
    

Sounds good. Hopefully we'll hear from David soon.

  
I'm sorry but I'm a little sick due to a flu so there will be a little
delay. I hope to be able to work on missing things in a day or two.
    

Yikes, sorry to hear that.. Go to bed!