I bought one also when on sale this spring with this intention, but haven't actually powered it on yet! (Unfortunately I accidentally bought the non-waterproof version.)

I'm new to Chirp driver development but willing to work with you on testing or coding an 8600 driver.

I've started working on my first driver, for the Radioddity DB20G (aka Anytone 779UV, Retevis RA25, prob also the DB20UV). I need to send a status message to the list on that!

Also have a working driver for the old Quansheng UV50R I found online that I need to upload via proper protocol that for some reason never got published in CHIRP by its original creator. Been using over a year with no problems.

-g

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 10:07 PM Andy Knitt via chirp_devel <chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

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
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