I helped write the Yaesu VX-3R driver https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/entry/chirp/drivers/vx...
About a year after that, (and using the radio a good bit) the radio appeared to lose power while I was writing to it. The battery was tested and charged, still no love. I sent it to Yaesu and the replaced some minor part (*not* the flash) but sadly I don't have the documentation on what anymore. After they sent it back to me I didn't use it as much (I had more radios by this point). About a year ago I started using it more heavily and 6 months ago the same thing happened (with the writing and the dying).
In no way do I "blame chirp". In fact, I'd more likely blame a problem with the cheap cable possibly having voltage spikes and the radio not being designed to handle a small voltage spike over the serial and shorting something out. That said, twice my vx-3r has died while writing to it from chirp.
Thanks, Rick
PS> I don't sell anything, I don't work on radios for a living, and I love chirp. I don't believe there is any possible way someone could suggest I'm biased aside from unlucky personal experience.
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:22 AM JOCK SOUTAR via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
Never bricked any of mine. Could it be the operator rather than the radio?
On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Dennis Wage chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote: Chirp has bricked Yeasu radios?
I know what I think. What's the real truth?
Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)
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