Yeah, we did do that. I think I'd be looking for a little more help this
time around, as things at work are pretty hectic for me at the moment
and I don't end up with much time to work on stuff like this.

Work is quite hectic for me too. Business is really off so they have us manufacturing engineering types really working hard to improve things to be more efficient when business gets back on track.

I still enjoy helping out with CHIRP during some of my off time so I'm still interested.

I'm sure that if I got you started with upload and download working, and
maybe just find the start of the memories or something that you are more
than qualified to do the rest.

This is probably where I think I would want to start. I'm just not sure I feel comfortable doing it with a loaner radio.

However, if you're interested in taking a
shot at the clone part too, I think you'd probably be able to knock that
out without too much trouble. What do you think? If you're not sure,
maybe get portmon installed and let it sniff the serial port as you do a
download from one of your radios, compare it with the code that is
there, and see if it makes sense to you?

I've done the portmon thing already. That's how I figured out the silly Baofeng UV-B5 was changing 'ident' strings and 'ack' codes as the settings were changed (why would hey do that?).

Anyway, the clone protocol part is usually not a huge amount of work and
less tedious than the rest, so if that's what it takes, I'll definitely
do that part :)

OK.

Let me look at the list some more (while I think about it).

Jim