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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 13 Jun '15

13 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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[chirp_users] Problem solved UV-5RV+
by doogle1953＠fastmail.net 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

Please disregard my HELP request. I figured out how to transfer a working program from one radio to another using 'IMPORT' all is well again in Northern Indiana. Thanks and best wishes to all. Doug KB9MIC

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[chirp_users] UV82 firmware incompatible
by John Hutchinson 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

I have successfully programmed UV82 in the past, seven in fact with the same .img file. I just bought 3 more and tried to upload to the radio but got error message that the Firmware version doesn't match that of the radio. I could Download from that radio and saved that file. Maybe upgrading CHIRP to the latest version 0.4.1 would help but didn't, so also ran Daily Build install hoping but no luck. I still get the same error message when trying to Upload and if I now try to Download, I get a message that it's the wrong model! I can still download from my older UV82. I see in Settings>Other Settings it shows the Firmware Message 1&2 which is different for the old and new radios but they are greyed out so can't change it. Older radios Firmware Message 1> ver Older radios Firmware Message 2> B82525 New radios Firmware Message 1> N822411 New radios Firmware Message 2> N822411 What do I do? Please help. John

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[chirp_users] Yaesu FT-60
by Jerry A 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hello, Would anyone be able to offer help with the Yaesu FT-60 and Chirp? For some reason I am getting an error message about communication between the radio and software. I have used FT-60 Commander, a Prolific USB to com port interface and Windows XP successfully but am unable to make things work with Chirp and Windows 7 using the same procedure, interface and com port. 73, Jerry - VE9CD

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