October 2013 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] CHIRP in my shack
by Milton Garb 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

My thanks to Dan and all of the developers for a great software package. It's saved me tons of money throughout the years and even enabled me to program some radio's when there was no other way (other than by hand). Thanks again, Milt. N6MG

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20131005 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #235 [Jens Jensen <kd4tjx(a)yahoo.com>] [ft90] fix get/set channel enable bits properly #1087

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[chirp_users] CHIRP and the Yaesu FT-857D
by Antoon Rubbens 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

This question must have been asked a million times already, but as I'm a new HAM in the Netherlands (since last Monday), I ask it one more time. I have a Yaesu FT-857D (US model) and a cheap Chinese USB cable that I bought from Ebay. I have insalled HamRadioDeluxe and this program can communicate with the radio over COM3. The cable is recognized as USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM3) in Win7. Now I installed CHIRP and I get the error 'Failed to communicate with radio: Unable to read block 00 expected 4 got 0' I searched the internet and found some hints: - Press the send button on the radio after clicking OK in CHIRP (I wondered what is 'the send button'? This radio has a million buttons) - Press the A button under the screen after cliking OK in CHIRP (the A button has manny functions on the 857, so which menu should be selected) - Set the CAT speed to 9600bps (did that) So basically the question is which menu I should select before pressing the A button. Or a step by step for the FT-857D is also welcome. Thanks for your help! Antoon (PA2AR).

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Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 58, Issue 5
by JP 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Antoon....welcome to the hobby! Hope you get your 857 going. Nice radio. Post back and let us know how it goes. 73 Brady K0UC Using CHIRP on so many rigs I can't enumerate... -------- Original message -------- From: chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Date: 10/04/2013 2:00 PM (GMT-06:00) To: chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: chirp_users Digest, Vol 58, Issue 5 Send chirp_users mailing list submissions to chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com You can reach the person managing the list at chirp_users-owner(a)intrepid.danplanet.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of chirp_users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CHIRP and the Yaesu FT-857D (Antoon Rubbens) 2. Re: CHIRP and the Yaesu FT-857D (IZ3GME Marco) 3. puxing px-777 anomalies (eric oyen) 4. Re: puxing px-777 anomalies (Tom Hayward) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:20:57 +0200 From: Antoon Rubbens <antoonr(a)gmail.com> Subject: [chirp_users] CHIRP and the Yaesu FT-857D To: chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: <CADRhFpDfxRP2hWSqTi5fA=iEW+Zr1t3=VobNXhRLL2jWaze=kA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This question must have been asked a million times already, but as I'm a new HAM in the Netherlands (since last Monday), I ask it one more time. I have a Yaesu FT-857D (US model) and a cheap Chinese USB cable that I bought from Ebay. I have insalled HamRadioDeluxe and this program can communicate with the radio over COM3. The cable is recognized as USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM3) in Win7. Now I installed CHIRP and I get the error 'Failed to communicate with radio: Unable to read block 00 expected 4 got 0' I searched the internet and found some hints: - Press the send button on the radio after clicking OK in CHIRP (I wondered what is 'the send button'? This radio has a million buttons) - Press the A button under the screen after cliking OK in CHIRP (the A button has manny functions on the 857, so which menu should be selected) - Set the CAT speed to 9600bps (did that) So basically the question is which menu I should select before pressing the A button. Or a step by step for the FT-857D is also welcome. Thanks for your help! Antoon (PA2AR).

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP and the Yaesu FT-857D
by Antoon Rubbens 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hello Marco, Thank you very much for this quick answer! Grazie mille (-; (We spent this years summer holiday in Lecco) I read that part of the manual (page 118) some weeks ago, but I didn't link it to my current problem today.... I'm going to try it this weekend. 73 de PA2AR (Antoon). Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:53:59 +0200 From: IZ3GME Marco <iz3gme.marco(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP and the Yaesu FT-857D To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> Message-ID: <524E8227.1020803(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Antoon the correct operation sequence to download from ft857 is: - switch on the radio while pressing both <- > buttons to push it to clone mode - prepare chirp for download selecting menu Radio - download from radio and setting the com port and radio type then press OK - start send on the radio pressing C button download (should) then start immediately and both radio and chirp show the operation via a progress bar. For upload the sequence is: - switch on the radio while pressing both <- > buttons to push it to clone mode - prepare chirp for upload selecting menu Radio - Upload to radio and setting the com port (do not press Ok yet) - start receive on the radio pressing A button - press Ok in chirp dialog to start upload You can find some info on the clone procedure at the end of ft857 manual, chirp simulate the second radio: the receiving one when you download and the transmitting one when you upload. I also must destroy the myth that the CAT speed have to be set in any way: in clone the ft857 the serial communication always take place at 9600 and there's no menu that can influence the protocol in any way. 73 de IZ3GME Marco On 04/10/2013 10:20, Antoon Rubbens wrote: > This question must have been asked a million times already, but as I'm a > new HAM in the Netherlands (since last Monday), I ask it one more time. > > I have a Yaesu FT-857D (US model) and a cheap Chinese USB cable that I > bought from Ebay. > I have insalled HamRadioDeluxe and this program can communicate with the > radio over COM3. The cable is recognized as USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM3) in > Win7. > > Now I installed CHIRP and I get the error 'Failed to communicate with > radio: Unable to read block 00 expected 4 got 0' > > I searched the internet and found some hints: > - Press the send button on the radio after clicking OK in CHIRP (I > wondered what is 'the send button'? This radio has a million buttons) > - Press the A button under the screen after cliking OK in CHIRP (the A > button has manny functions on the 857, so which menu should be selected) > - Set the CAT speed to 9600bps (did that) > > So basically the question is which menu I should select before pressing > the A button. Or a step by step for the FT-857D is also welcome. > > Thanks for your help! > Antoon (PA2AR).

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[chirp_users] puxing px-777 anomalies
by eric oyen 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

hello there, ok, I have tried both the stable release version that came with ubuntu 13.04 and the daily build produced yesterday. both aren't reading my radio correctly. on the stable release, only every 3rd memory location (frequency) is visible. On the development version, it shows values that are supposed to be in other fields (such as PL tone being in the frequency field, etc.). unfortunately, I can't seem to make sense of how its arranged (I use a screen reader here as I am blind) and even in Braille, it displays much the same. I need to be able to program this radio for some public service events and I can't do so in either OS X or windows (using the windows binaries provided by the manufacturer is equally as useless under jaws). Chirp there just displays a blank application screen. Under OS x, it displays some of the information, but none of the memory channels or other fields in that table. I really would like to be able to use this package, but it seems to be beyond my reach right now. Also, as I am not a coder (my skills are in systems administration, security and database management), I can't just go in and change how the thing operates. lastly, I don't have any method by which I can capture a screen output on the linux machine to show what is going on. I also don't have a lot of money to spare (as I live on disability), so sending a radio to be tested for development is out of my reach (and I only have the one radio). Now, considering that I am a ham and also blind, I am really in a very small population group. Still, I would consider it a great favor if someone *(anyone) would help to make this project more accessible for those like me (there are several thousand blind hams in the US alone). Now I have tried getting hold of the manufacturer in china, only to be completely ignored (I have 2 strikes against me already: 1. I am american, 2. I am blind). so, how about it? anyone up to the challenge? -eric

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[chirp_users] cannot read from com port
by eric oyen 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

ok, I have chirp installed on a ubuntu 13.04 box. Its operation appears to be a bit inconsistent. Sometimes it will run and display the program frame. other times it just sits there and is invisible to the orca screen reader. the second issue is that it can't seem to obtain permissions to read from the com port (which is a prolific device on a USB dongle). I have confirmed that the device is loaded and working properly (I can set up a terminal session between 2 machines with it). However, all attempts (that are visible to me) result in the error "cannot read from device. Permission denied". I have tried running it from a terminal session using sudo and it won't even become visible to my screen reader. In case you are wondering, I am blind. So, I need a little help here. now, I have made sure that my user is administrator on the machine, so there shouldn't be this problem. suggestions? -eric

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[chirp_users] radio won't ack first command error
by eric oyen 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

ok, I got the port permissions issue resolved (its a bug in the initial system setup and I wasn't added to dial out). However, now I have this problem: radio: PX-777 vendor: puxingradio port: /dev/ttysusb0 downloading profile from radio… error: radio did not ACK first command. ok, so how do I get around this? The version of chirp I am using is on uBuntu 13.04 and I don't get have a development environment setup. do I have to get one of the daily builds to make this work? -eric

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20131003 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #234 [Marco Filippi <iz3gme.marco(a)gmail.com>] [ui] Correctly manage "No com port" situation Fix regression introduced fixing #1131

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[chirp_users] Downloading software
by Jeff Gardner 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Just bought a radio , looked at site to download software ..got to the point on the download where it said this would make changes to my computer that is where I stopped. Can anyone help me out does downloading this software alter what is already on my computer ? Thanks Jeff Gardner, Sr. Louisville,Ky

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