I recently purchased a TYT TH-8600 and am starting working through mapping out the memory so that I can hopefully eventually put together a PR to add support for this radio, as it's been requested quite a few times.

This will be my first attempt to do this and I have a couple newbie questions:

1 - Does anyone have any recommendations for a similar TYT radio that I should look to use as a 'closest' starting point? I've been looking at a few different TYT models and while the themes are similar there are some reasonably big differences among them. I'm not familiar enough with their product line to know which ones might be the closest to the TH-8600. If no one knows, I'll just suffer though figuring it out.

2- This radio supports a few features ( 2Tone & 5Tone signalling, etc.) that aren't typically used in amateur radio. Is it normal practice to fully tease out the entire memory map and add support for these types of things to CHIRP, or just skip them?

Thanks,

Andy KN1TT