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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

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-20150620 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #354 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Clean Up Code This patch is to make recently added code more readable. There are no changes in functionality. Related to #2643 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Support BF-A58 as Radio With 3 Power Levels The initial support for the BF-A58 added it as a radio with only 2 power levels. It has 3 power levels. This patch moves it to the group radios having 3 power levels. Note: This patch also requires removing "BFT" from the BASETYPE_UV5R list and adding it to the BASETYPE_F8HP list. This was accidentally done already in a patch that added UV-82HP support. Related to #2261 Changes for Build #355 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Change remote build for Win7x64 #00

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Re: [chirp_users] Powerwerx DB-750X Programming Issue (Ryan Tourge)
by Robert DiGioia 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Richard, My experience is that Apple is the one not playing too nice, although I'm sure they have their reasons. When Yosemite came out last fall, three things happened. First, Apple added their own FTDI driver, which doesn't work with most cables. Second, they put in extra security around all of their drivers that can't be easily bypassed. Thirdly, if you edit the FTDI config files, OS X marks the driver as unusable (because the file checksum changes). I tried many solutions (all pre-Yosemite) and none would work. I ended up moving my Linux machine closer to the radio. It works like a champ with Chirp and fldigi where the Mac would no longer work after upgrading to Yosemite. That said, I found this <https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ftdi-drivers/mac#yosemi…> that says it works on Yosemite, however I have not tried it. Good luck and 73, Robert AF5RA

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[chirp_users] Prolific chip an USB3
by JS 20 Jun '15

20 Jun '15

My old system died so now I have a new win7 pro machine with all USB3 ports. I cant read from either Baofeng or wouxun rigs. My old system was win7 home with USB2 and another running Vista with USB2. Am using the same prolific cord that worked perfectly on the old systems. I have installed the 3.2.0 driver, device manager tell me it is working properly and to use port 3. When attempting to connect to the radio it tells me there was an error and it cant be found. My USB3, USB2, and USB1 devices work OK when inserted into the USB# ports. Only thing that does not work is when connecting to the two rigs mentioned above.. Any ideas???? *Jim S*

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[chirp_users] Powerwerx DB-750X Programming Issue
by Richard Paczkowski 20 Jun '15

20 Jun '15

Good afternoon and happy Father's Day Eve to all the dads out there! I have had a PowerWerx DB-750x since February and had had a chance to play with if off and on for the past few months. I purchased it from a national dealer at a hamfest along with the legit RT Systems Cable and software directly from the dealer. It's windows software and I'm a hardcore MAC guy. I borrowed an old XP machine from my Dad, loaded the software, unlocked the rig and did some elementary programming knowing that CHIRP also supported this model, I gave the pc back and started enjoying the radio. Now that I need to reprogram the rig for new memories ect, all I have is my MAC Book Air and was hoping to use the legit cable. Well it turns out that the third and latest version of the RT systems cable apparently doesn't play nice with CHIRP. RT systems apparently did something to make the cable incompatible with third party software.. Since the DB750x is just a clone of the POLMAR and Anyone rigs, I bought a programming cable online for the Anyone model, hooked it up, and am able to do a preliminary download of the radio, but when I go to "open up" the channel views, CHIRP crashes whenever I try to view memory channels above #40. (I can upload the debugger log if necessary) In addition, some of the programmed channels aren't transferring over, and some of the data is actually incorrect. I have tried the POLMAR, Anyone, and the PowerWerx download options, all with the same result. So now I stuck :( I like this radio for operation, but hate manually programming the channels. I'm a huge CHIRP fan and have become spoiled with how easy it is to update m other rigs. Now it looks like I am either stuck finding an XP machine, or maybe another radio. Any suggestions that the group could provide? I should also mention I have tried the stable and daily build versions with the same result. There is an RT systems "Driver" available for the MAC which I have tried, but again their software is not MAC compatible. Thanks in advance, and I really appreciate everyone's time! Richard

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[chirp_users] Problem
by Fred Storey 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

Hi Guys, I am a newby to chirp and I am having a problem looking at the memorys in my FT857D. After I down load from the radio none of my memory info appears. But down the bottom of the screen there is a message saying "(0) Completed getting memory 200 (idle)". What am I not doing? Thanks for the help. Regards,Fred -- Fred Storey <vk3jm(a)bigpond.com> -- Fred Storey <vk3jm(a)bigpond.com>

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

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-20150616 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #353 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Add Support for Baofeng UV-82HP The Baofeng UV-82HP is a variant of the UV-82 with the addition of 3 power levels New Model #2643

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

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-20150615 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #352 [Eric Allen <eric(a)hackerengineer.net>] Fix PEP8 failures due to line length in FT-8100 driver Related to #1229 [Eric Allen <eric(a)hackerengineer.net>] Add basic support for the Yaesu FT-8100 This is somewhat incomplete, but it works well enough to get my FT-8100 programmed. I'd rather share it as-is then let it bitrot on my laptop, because several users on the mailing list have asked about it. Resolves #1467 [Eric Allen <eric(a)hackerengineer.net>] Fix skip reading in TH-UVF8D Turns out the and/or Python ternary doesn't work when you do "and ''", because '' is falsey. Fixes #2641 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Add Support for New Baofeng Firmware Versions Add detection for new UV-5R and UV-82 firmware versions. Related to #2629

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[chirp_users] Will Chirp work with Icom IC7400
by g6ohm＠talktalk.net 14 Jun '15

14 Jun '15

Hi I see that Chirp will work with the Icom IC746. Will it also work with the Icom IC7400. 73 Andy Dunham G6OHM My email : g6ohm(a)talktalk.net

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[chirp_users] Baofeng BF-F8+ problems
by Manuel Maseda 14 Jun '15

14 Jun '15

Just bought a BF-F8+ and can't read it with Chirp. Cable and drivers are fine as I can program my UV5R. Anybody get this radio to work with Chirp? Manuel

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[chirp_users] "length 0" error DLing from FT-8900
by Charles Boling (AD7UF) 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

Hi, longtime CHiRP user for Icom,Yeasu,Wouxun,Baofeng here. I just got a Yeasu FT-8900R (and a USB programming cable) and am having difficulty getting it to download. I'm running CHiRP 0.4.0 on Python 2.7.8 under Ubuntu 14.10. I put the radio in clone mode, have CHiRP waiting for the data, and as soon as I press the V/M button to send the data, I get the error: "ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found" and the radio shows a clone error. I read the recent (May 4) thread on this list between Dan & Benjamin entitled "Chirp IndexError" that describes the same error. In his case, Benjamin wasn't getting anything from the radio, and it proved to be a loose cable. Not so with me. In my case, here's what I know: I can connect a terminal program (PuTTY) to the correct port and get echo. I also receive data from the radio when pressing the V/M button that looks right. Specifically, the radio sends this string, viewed in PuTTY: AH008$.$ ("." is non-ASCII char) I captured it to a file and this is the exact data stream in hex: 41 48 30 30 38 24 80 24 The correct data stream only appears at 9600 baud, which is what ft7800.py says it should be fixed at. AH008 is the model that the code shows for the FT8900. Here's the terminal output from the failure: ... User selected Yaesu FT-8900 on port /dev/ttyUSB1 Clone thread started Download finished in 1 seconds -- Exception: -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirpui/clone.py", line 227, in run self.__radio.sync_in() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/ft7800.py", line 320, in sync_in self.check_checksums() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/yaesu_clone.py", line 209, in check_checksums if checksum.get_existing(self._mmap) != \ File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/yaesu_clone.py", line 156, in get_existing return ord(mmap[self._address]) TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found ------ Clone failed: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found Clone thread ended --- Exception Dialog: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found --- None ---------------------------- Any ideas?

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