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[chirp_users] I got an unsupported xinchuang TR-N7 radio, how can I add support for it?
by mofo syne 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Is there any place I can upload... say a "serial dump" file of communication between it and some propriety software (named SV83) ? I managed to create a serial sniffer cable, so if I have a place to upload it, then you guys could inspect and add support for it. Heck I think having a dedicated place to upload serial dumps would be great for reverse engineering efforts.

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[chirp_users] Unused Fields Option and the missing NONE selections
by Mike Morrow 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Well thanks for the tongue lashing (that's a little overboard) but it was a little lecture on the "Hide Unused Fields" checkbox and how it is now going to be the default and solve all my problems. IT DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!!! Read on to learn why. So I load up my data and change the option to hide unused fields. OK, all those pesky 88.5s in the sheet magically disappear. OK, great. But then I change one of the PLs to 100.0. Oops, since there are no horizontal lines to help guide me across a sea of blankness, I got one off and meant to change the next one down. OK, just set it back off by ... uhhhh... THERE IS NO "NONE" selection. I CANNOT SET IT BACK TO OFF!! Aww nuts, now I have to either delete this memory and enter it in again or kill all my updates and reload the sheet and start again. Neither is a good thing to have to do because of a missing option in a box on a sheet without any guide rules (lines) to help me get it right in the first place. You see, good programming practice is good programming practice. Band-Aids are NOT GOOD PROGRAMMING PRACTICE. Not sorry about the screaming. I worked in computers for 30+ years. I was trained and also taught myself and taught classes about good programming practice. And what CHIRP is trying to do with this Band-Aid is just plain wrong. If you can set something on, you must be able to set it off, too. As I said. If I had produced something like this and put it out to the field, I would have been fired! Now it is time that someone, somewhere in the organization realized that there HAS to be a NONE selection to turn off a PL or any other selection that is no longer needed or was entered by mistake. And as far as I can tell, that is not possible since there is no NONE selection. Am I wrong? If so, I apologize in advance and await another tongue lashing. Thanks to all for all the hard work but someone missed a standard design point on multiple of the columns. Mike

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[chirp_users] Win 8.1 and prolific driver and Baofeng UV 82
by Wes 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

I was able to use my cable with the counterfeit chip and the correct driver while using Win 8. Everything worked fine. I upgraded to 8.1 and now the wrong driver keeps coming back even when I update the driver. I can delete and or upgrade, still the same even rebooting, even turning off auto updates. The correct driver will show up, without the exclamation mark, and within seconds of plugging in the cable, the screen will flash 2 or 3 times and the driver will show up with the exclamation mark. Any thoughts?

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[chirp_users] Yaesu VX-3: Received incomplete image from radio...
by Andrew Webster 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Hello all, I have a new Yaesu VX-3 and I am currently failing to get Chirp to read the download from the radio. I have a laptop with a real serial port running Linux Mint 17, connecting to the VX-3 by serial cable. I can start a download from the radio and Chirp appears to be receiving it with a moving progress bar but, at the final moment of download, when the radio completes its send I get the following error from Chirp: "Failed to communicate with the radio: Received incomplete image from radio" I get this error on Chirp versions 0.3.1 and 0.4.0 Forgive me if this has been asked before, I think I've searched everywhere I can and I've looked over the last 6 months archive of the mailing list for relevant thread titles. The closest I found was this open issue on a Yaesu VX-8: http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1511 The VX-3 has obviously been around for some time so I'm hoping this issue has come up before and someone can point me in the right direction...? Thanks in advance and 73 AndyG7UHN

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[chirp_users] IC-2200H - error message when trying to download (Marcelo XQ6BQ)Re: chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 25
by ROLAN.CLARK＠comcast.net 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Rolan, W3FDK here, I used the speaker jack to 9 pin D connector to serial to USB (FTDI ) and turned on the radio and on Chirp > Radio and selected Icom and auto detect and it downloaded the memory data. The IC2200H screen displayed CL OUT then back to normal display after download and all the memories and DSTAR data was there as far as I could tell. Maybe what was described in the trouble query is for rig to rig clone? I hope this helps, 73 de rolan w3fdk ----- Original Message ----- From: "chirp users-request" <chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> To: "chirp users" <chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:00:02 PM Subject: chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 25 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. IC-2200H - error message when trying to download (Marcelo XQ6BQ) 2. Re: chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 21 (Mike Morrow) 3. Re: chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 21 (Jim Unroe) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:47:05 -0400 From: Marcelo XQ6BQ <xq6bq(a)qsl.net> Subject: [chirp_users] IC-2200H - error message when trying to download To: chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: <CADf52WZbLkxMm6P54fdY9kYjjmQ5ZnYFGWW4fDep-394_q-PWg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello, maybe someone can give me some light... I was looking everywhere for an answer but found nothing, so apologies if this has been discussed before. Latest CHIRP, Windows 7, Prolific driver OK. Brand new USB (Prolific) cable for IC-2200H, connector to rig seems to fit well. I've used CHIRP with Baofeng UV-5R and Yaesu FT-60R, worked perfect. Now, when connecting IC-2200H to PC and trying to download memories, this message appears: An error has occurred Failed to communicate with the radio: Unexpected response from radio. I don't have a spare cable or another IC-2200H to check if the problem is there. Perhaps I'm not following the proper sequence to download data from this particular radio? 1) Connect cable to radio and to PC 2) Launch CHIRP 3) While pushing [M/CALL], turn power ON (?CLONE? appears on the radio's display) 4) Go to CHIRP's "Download from radio" menu but touch nothing yet 5) Push [S.MW ] on the radio. ?CL OUT? appears on the display. 6) Click OK to CHIRP dialog... Then it briefly shows the small "cloning" window and then the error message. Any suggestions? Thanks!! 73, Marcelo XQ6BQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20140728/f8… ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:58:32 -0700 From: Mike Morrow <mikeymail(a)ILikeTheInternet.com> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 21 To: chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: <53D6D598.2050606(a)ILikeTheInternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed This is something I was thinking of opening a problem ticket on. It is confusing, obviously, to many to have the default and "no tone" setting to be a tone. In this case 88.5. We use 88.5 on some repeaters locally and having the "no setting" setting the same as "in use setting" both be 88.5 is confusing for a quick look at the grid. I got confused, myself, when going through the grid and had to go back to he repeater book to figure out if these were really in use or not. One used two different tones and one was 88.5 and, once again, I had to go back and double check and make sure if this was in use or "no tone". I would also like to see a NONE setting in the Tone columns for a more positive indication that there is no tone used here. Another confusion is when you query the Repeater Guide, if no tone is in use, it comes back 88.5 and you have to then investigate further to see if this is real or "no tone" usage of 88.5. All around confusing and since software is there to help us, it should not impede progress by adding useless confusion when it is so easy to do it "right" and show NONE when NONE is the correct setting rather than duplicating a valid setting. Even the stupid Wouxun software, for all its faults, does this properly. Seems like better software (CHIRP) could do at least that good. Right? I have been a programmer for most of my life. If I set a real entry as the setting for NONE, I would have been fired! Mike/W6XXX On 7/23/2014 12:00 PM, chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com wrote: > An entry in the ToneSql field is not required. > If the Tone Mode selection is (none), the Tone and ToneSql fields are ignored. > The 88.5 is a filler default. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:25:38 -0400 From: Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 21 To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> Message-ID: <CADnO8U7RS3V4L9agZt+1+vrVrXMNKxW75hFss0Wddj4Me0w49g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Mike, Click "View" in the menu bar. Then enable "Hide Unused Fields". Now unused fields will be blank. You won't need "no tone" because there will be no tone value listed (it will be blank). CHIRP was recently updated so that new installations will have "Hide Unused Fields" enabled by default. Jim KC9HI On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Mike Morrow <mikeymail(a)iliketheinternet.com > wrote: > This is something I was thinking of opening a problem ticket on. It is > confusing, obviously, to many to have the default and "no tone" setting > to be a tone. In this case 88.5. We use 88.5 on some repeaters locally > and having the "no setting" setting the same as "in use setting" both be > 88.5 is confusing for a quick look at the grid. I got confused, myself, > when going through the grid and had to go back to he repeater book to > figure out if these were really in use or not. One used two different > tones and one was 88.5 and, once again, I had to go back and double > check and make sure if this was in use or "no tone". > > I would also like to see a NONE setting in the Tone columns for a more > positive indication that there is no tone used here. > > Another confusion is when you query the Repeater Guide, if no tone is in > use, it comes back 88.5 and you have to then investigate further to see > if this is real or "no tone" usage of 88.5. > > All around confusing and since software is there to help us, it should > not impede progress by adding useless confusion when it is so easy to do > it "right" and show NONE when NONE is the correct setting rather than > duplicating a valid setting. > > Even the stupid Wouxun software, for all its faults, does this > properly. Seems like better software (CHIRP) could do at least that > good. Right? > > I have been a programmer for most of my life. If I set a real entry as > the setting for NONE, I would have been fired! > > Mike/W6XXX > > On 7/23/2014 12:00 PM, chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com wrote: > > An entry in the ToneSql field is not required. > > If the Tone Mode selection is (none), the Tone and ToneSql fields are > ignored. > > The 88.5 is a filler default. > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20140728/15… ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users End of chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 25 *******************************************

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Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 21
by Mike Morrow 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

This is something I was thinking of opening a problem ticket on. It is confusing, obviously, to many to have the default and "no tone" setting to be a tone. In this case 88.5. We use 88.5 on some repeaters locally and having the "no setting" setting the same as "in use setting" both be 88.5 is confusing for a quick look at the grid. I got confused, myself, when going through the grid and had to go back to he repeater book to figure out if these were really in use or not. One used two different tones and one was 88.5 and, once again, I had to go back and double check and make sure if this was in use or "no tone". I would also like to see a NONE setting in the Tone columns for a more positive indication that there is no tone used here. Another confusion is when you query the Repeater Guide, if no tone is in use, it comes back 88.5 and you have to then investigate further to see if this is real or "no tone" usage of 88.5. All around confusing and since software is there to help us, it should not impede progress by adding useless confusion when it is so easy to do it "right" and show NONE when NONE is the correct setting rather than duplicating a valid setting. Even the stupid Wouxun software, for all its faults, does this properly. Seems like better software (CHIRP) could do at least that good. Right? I have been a programmer for most of my life. If I set a real entry as the setting for NONE, I would have been fired! Mike/W6XXX On 7/23/2014 12:00 PM, chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com wrote: > An entry in the ToneSql field is not required. > If the Tone Mode selection is (none), the Tone and ToneSql fields are ignored. > The 88.5 is a filler default.

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[chirp_users] IC-2200H - error message when trying to download
by Marcelo XQ6BQ 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hello, maybe someone can give me some light... I was looking everywhere for an answer but found nothing, so apologies if this has been discussed before. Latest CHIRP, Windows 7, Prolific driver OK. Brand new USB (Prolific) cable for IC-2200H, connector to rig seems to fit well. I've used CHIRP with Baofeng UV-5R and Yaesu FT-60R, worked perfect. Now, when connecting IC-2200H to PC and trying to download memories, this message appears: An error has occurred Failed to communicate with the radio: Unexpected response from radio. I don't have a spare cable or another IC-2200H to check if the problem is there. Perhaps I'm not following the proper sequence to download data from this particular radio? 1) Connect cable to radio and to PC 2) Launch CHIRP 3) While pushing [M/CALL], turn power ON (“CLONE” appears on the radio's display) 4) Go to CHIRP's "Download from radio" menu but touch nothing yet 5) Push [S.MW ] on the radio. “CL OUT” appears on the display. 6) Click OK to CHIRP dialog... Then it briefly shows the small "cloning" window and then the error message. Any suggestions? Thanks!! 73, Marcelo XQ6BQ

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[chirp_users] CT2 Yaesu 7800 with TTL2USB CT2 lead
by Andy Green 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

Hi all, I have a TTL2USB CT2 programmer and leads for the 7800, and am getting the following problem. I can copy the data from the radio to chirp, but it fails to upload, giving an error message , either a fail or a bad memory lock message. Anyone else experience with using the CT2 with Chirp? Best Regards, Andy EI3HG

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Re: [chirp_users] VX-7R Issues
by John W. 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

It is neither designed, nor legal to use that radio on said frequencies

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

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-20140724 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #284 [Dan Drogichen <chirp.cordless(a)xoxy.net>] Allow specification of the hexdump address format Further edits to patch from Dan Smith # Fri Jul 18 07:58:00 2014 -0700 Change default addrfmt to %(addr)03i as discussed. Catch several exceptions resulting from format string errors observed in testing, and use the default format, as discussed. Revised the README.developers entry for hexdump_addrfmt as discussed. Alphabetized the README.developers directive descriptions, and made a few other minor edits as per the related #1767 patch submitted # Tue Jul 15 11:40:21 2014 -0700 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Allow specification of the hexdump address format This allows developers to override the address format used during whole-diff (and potentially other) hexdump operations. Idea and much of the implementation borrowed from Dan Drogichen Related to #1767 [Marco Filippi <iz3gme.marco(a)gmail.com>] [FT7800] Fix TSQL-R tone mode support Fix #221 Changes for Build #285 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Update Firmware Version Detection Fix firmware version block length (14 characters instead of 16). The firmware version check was failing on characters outside of the firmware version block. Swap the check order for BFB and BFS in the firmware version string so the first occurance will always be selected. The previous method was allowing different firmware versions to be detected as being the same. Related to bug #1751 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UI] Update default for "Hide Unused Fields" - 2nd attempt Set "Hide Unused Fields" to be enabled by default #1779 [Marco Filippi <iz3gme.marco(a)gmail.com>] [VX170] Fix last patch My last patch to FT7800 broke this radio because they all depend on FTx800Radio Broken fixing #221

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