On 4/7/2011 12:09 AM, Richard Farina wrote:
On 04/06/11 23:48, Dan Smith wrote:
Are you sure you're not thinking of the VX7? What you describe is exactly how it works for that radio, but the VX8 makes a departure from the three-block protocol that the 7 (and others of that vintage) use. The block missing is the one with the mods in it.
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I'm not personally > familiar with the 6 mod, but if you say it is possible I'm sure it is very similar to the others.
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VX3 and VX8* are rather similar in that the really convenient mod interface is definately gone. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I need someone to take a clone of their radio before and after hardmod/reset as I am not comfortable modding my VX3 (I really suck at soldering).
Ok thanks for filling in some of the background info for me. I didn't know if that piece of memory was available or not and didn't have the background - the vx8 was my first radio. Also as I noted in my original msg to Dan, the software mod that worked through the backdoor on the VX-8R apparently has been removed from the VX-8DR.
What I saw about the vx6 was from vx6tool.c, which was the first piece of OSS I came across for Yaesu VX's (and I used to figure out how to download/upload my vx8's memory). vx6tool is available here:
http://lategahn.2log.de/index.php?yaesu-vx6-command-line-utility