Hello!

I'm Rich Cochran, AG6QR. I've worked as a software developer for many years, using many languages and tools, but not too much with Python or Mercurial yet.

For quite some time, I've been meaning to write a driver to support the Yaesu FT-2900 radio. I had entered comments on issues #328 and #925 regarding support of this radio. But between work, kids, and other things, progress had been stalled until a couple of weeks ago.

Now I'm happy to report that I have a working driver that can upload and download memories, supporting frequency, name, tone, DCS, squelch type, skip, step size, offset, and duplex fields. I basically took the existing FT-2800 driver, and I support everything it supports, plus step size (but the internal memory layout is very different between the FT-2900 and FT-2800). I can add new memories, delete them, move them around, edit all the fields, and upload/download to and from the radio. I do not support banks (yet), nor do I support global radio settings, and there are a few esoteric features, like odd splits or separate CTCSS tones for transmit vs receive, which are still lacking. I'd like to continue enhancing the driver in the future, but I think it offers enough solid functionality now to be useful to many people.

When I put an image in the test directory, my driver now passes all the tests (the tests found an issue with 12.5kHz step size which I have since fixed -- thanks to whomever thought to include that).

I haven't yet run my source through the pep8 checker script, and the source tree where I've done the driver development is a couple of weeks old. I intend to grab the latest source, run my code through pep8, verify that it's all still working, and I think I'll be ready to submit.

Have I missed anything? If not, I'll e-mail the .img file as an attachment to this list, and email the new ft2900.py as a Mercurial patch. It'll take me at least another evening or two to do this.

--Rich Cochran/AG6QR