Hi to all.
Please note that after approval of the new patch sent to the devel queue, next versions of Chirp will not have the Sainsonic GT-890 listed in the Vendor/Model listing on the chirp interface. That's just for a unknown time frame, keep reading.
This change obey to the fact that the two variants of the Sainsonic GT-890 known to us are a perfect clones of two variants of the QYT KT8900, so to read/write to the Sainsonic GT-890 you must select the QYT KT8900 instead, the wiki page on the Chirp's site was updated today to reflect this change.
Having a clone listed side by side with a reference radio put some challenges to the validating scripts in the devel stages and from the developers point of view & programming paradigms it's wrong. We are working on a solution for that, it will bring clones to visibility on the UI in a user friendly way; a few links for the curious:
http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2016-April/003955.html
http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2016-April/003958.html
PS: After we test this new change for the clones to show in the UI for the BTECH's and family; that trick can be expanded to other families like the Baofeng UV-5R with it's many clones...
73 Pavel CO7WT