| > As fas as I know the famous radio programming tool CHIRP doesn't support this radio, yet. | > I have managed to read my FT-270 with CHIRP by selecting VX-170 from the dropdown menu. | > Will I expirience any issues after I upload the image back to the FT-270 radio? | | With little information, there is no way for me to say for sure, but | my guess is, yes, you will experience issues uploading to an | unsupported radio. | | When I add support for a new radio, I analyze the data stream | bit-for-bit to make sure I understand everything that is being | transferred. Then I write the Chirp driver so that what it sends to | the radio is indistinguishable from what is sent by the manufacturer's | software or a clone from another radio. | | It doesn't sound like you have done any analysis of the data from the | FT-270, so writing to it would be just a guess, risky business.
Thanks for your answer, Tom.
Actually, the imported chirp data (at least the memory channels) looks legit. I am rather concerned about the Settings data. I could upload the .img file if this helps.