You must have an appropriate cable and a system on which to run Chirp. Yaesu makes and sells a cable for 75 US$ (SCU-19; they’re VERY proud of it, apparently!) The cable that comes with the radio will not work for regular programming, as far as I can tell it is only used to update the firmware.

Other folks have had trouble with third party cables (not necessarily just with FT2DR) because of counterfeit/broken chips in the cables.

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On Jan 23, 2019, at 15:50, E. M. Recio via chirp_users <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

Just got my hands on this puppy. Wondering if anything special is needed.

Thanks!