On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:18 AM, YL3IM yl3im@ham.lv wrote:
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.
Tom KD7LXL