On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Grant Cunningham kd7jnw@me.com wrote:
Thanks Tom. Yes, I'm following the Yaesu manual to the letter.
When the display says "CLONE START", the manual says to push the 'set' button, the screen will blank, and then the display will show "CLONE". I do that, and it does.
The manual then says to start the receiving radio, and I click the start button in CHIRP. The manual then says to push the left-bank 'V/M' key to initiate transmission; when I press that button, nothing happens - the display still reads "CLONE", the "-TX-" doesn't show, and CHIRP times out with this error:
"Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)".
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Grant Cunningham kd7jnw@me.com wrote:
Problem solved - I'd left the radio in crossband mode! I would have thought that entered the initial set menu (where the clone function is located) would have suspended crossband, but it doesn't.
I turned off xband, and the download went without a hitch. Now I can experience the inevitable problems editing and uploading the image file - yippee!
Excellent catch! This will have to go into the archives for any future FT-8800 owner unfortunate enough to try to clone when in crossband repeater mode.
Tom KD7LXL