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[chirp_users] Trouble with Chirp & Yaesu FT-60R
by Frank Kohn 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

|Hello, | |I am using a FTDI USB Cable from Valley Enterprises to connect my Macbook Pro to an Yaesu FT-60R. It worked great initially, but since upgrading to the latest CHIRP build, I have been unable to program my FT-60R or even begin by downloading the channel image from the radio. I downloaded and reinstalled KK7DS_Python_Runtime_R10.pkg, FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_4_2, and |chirp-unified-daily-20200207 <https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-unified-daily-202…>. I followed the procedures for downloading the memory for my radio and received a message saying: /**//*A error has occurred*//////*Failed to communicate with radio*//////*Reading block 0 was short (62) */Can anyone help me get this to work. Thank you, Frank W3MHP /**//**/||

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[chirp_users] Missing USB connectivity
by Tim Duffy 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

I updated to the latest build and one of the connectivity choices seems to have disappeared. The only option I can get is this: /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port I'm using the cable supplied by my radio manufacturer. Everything worked with all my radios before the upgrade. Should I try and revert to an earlier build or is there another solution? Any help is greatly appreciated. Tim Duffy

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[chirp_users] Unable to connect to UV-82. Additionnal info.
by Marc Montour 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

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[chirp_users] Cannot connet CHIRP to my new Baofeng UV-82.
by Marc Montour 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

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-20200207 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #612 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add test images for FT-25R, FT-4VR, FT-4XE, FT-65E Related to #7189, #6619, #7387, #7543 [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] Add Yaesu FT-25R (and infrastructure for Yaesu FT-25E). Fixes: #7543 This patch adds support for the Yaesu FT-25 to Chirp. The European version is commented out; we can activate as soon as we obtain an image (it can be downloaded using FT-25R as selected radio). [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] Add Yaesu FT-4VR (and infrastructure for Yaesu FT-4VE). Fixes: #7387 This patch adds support for the Yaesu FT-4V to Chirp. The European version is commented out; we can activate as soon as we obtain an image (it can be downloaded using FT-25R as selected radio). [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] Add Yaesu FT-65E. Fixes: #6619 This patch adds support for the Yaesu FT-65E to Chirp. It offers an additional tune step of 6.25 kHz. [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] Add Yaesu FT-4XE. Fixes: #7189 This patch adds support for the Yaesu FT-4XE to Chirp. It offers an additional tune step of 6.25 kHz. [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] Open allowed frequencies to radio supported receive ranges. Fixes #6651 The FT-4 driver restricted allowed frequencies to what the radios allowed for transmit. This patch opens allowed ranges to what the radios offer for receiving. Also mentioned in #6869. [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] After CSV import, channels were always low power. Fixes #7603 After a CSV file was imported, all imported channels were displayed and uploaded with low power. This patch ensures the recommended high power setting will now be used. [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] Sometimes channel names are not displayed correctly. Fixes: #7601 When user programmed radio manually and added a name shorter than 8 characters, the remaining characters were filled with garbage on the Chirp UI. This was due to padding with 0x7F used by the Yaesu; the solution is to pad with 0x20 (space characters) instead.

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[chirp_users] How to "aliasing"
by ok1vve＠email.cz 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

help me please I read a lot and as described in WIKI is some function to write the same radios ad different manufacturers. (Aliasing) Nowhere I read how. Please can someone send me a link or a short tutorial how to? Can I edit it in any file? I have CRT 279UV it is clone of QYT KT-8900D Thank you Vít

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

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-20200206 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #611 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add Kenwood TK-2180 and TK-3180 model support Related to #2835 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Remove a errant debug print() in TK-x180 driver Found during #2835 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix an off-by-one error with TK-x180 radios Settings selections with a default could be off-by-one. Related to #2835 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add Kenwood TK-7180 model support This is just a small variation on the TK-8180 driver. Related to #2835

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[chirp_users] Update trouble
by Mark Ross 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Anyone else having trouble with the update for 2/5? Mark Ross

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[chirp_users] Default Service Settings for Baofeng UV5R
by Lucas Frykholm 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew the default/recommended Service Squelch Settings for the Baofeng UV5R. I mainly use mine as a scanner but use frs 1 and 2. ~Lucas F

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

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-20200205 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #610 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix style issue in previous patch for #7615 [Bernhard Hailer <ham73tux(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] driver restructure (#7615) While implementing two more radios of the Yaesu FT-4 family (the FT-25, see #7543, and the FT-4V, see #7387), I found that with some moderate reorganization, implementation of new radios will become easier. The proposed reorganization implements one more interstitial layer of inheritance to support the sub families of FT-4 (containing the FT-4X and FT-4V) and FT-65 (containing FT-65 and FT-25). Also, some variable assignments have been moved from the individual radio classes to the SCU-35 base class and to the interstitial classes named above. This change also adds the infrastructure for adding European or Asian models, and as such prepare for addressing a number of currently open issues (6.25kHz tune step issues on EU models, frequency limitations; see #6619, #6651, #6677, #6761, #6869). It will also make it easier for a few additional fixes for issues which were found during my work on this driver (#7601, #7603, #7605). I will submit these fixes in additional patches. Fixes: #7615

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