Hi Emil,

I have an FT-897D and would be happy to do some testing should there be a need.

We just pushed the FT-857 support into the tree, and it will be in tomorrow's daily build. Could you attempt to use the 857 driver to download an image from your 897? If it works, it should grab all the data from the radio, but then chirp will complain once completed. However, if you ignore the errors and go to File->Save As, you should be able to save out the memory map as a .img file. If that works, could you send it to us for analysis?

Did you get subscribed to the development list?

Thanks!