Greetings all- I ran into a problem setting up a VX-6R for a friend today (first time I have used CHIRP on this model radio). Since it was a "new" used radio, I first reset it to factory defaults, then did a read from the radio which worked fine. Next I opened my master CSV file with all my local programming, and copy and pasted various sections into the VX-6 tab (using about 65% of the memories). I then wrote the new file back to the radio, which also seemed to go fine. As I reviewed the programming on the radio, the first thing I noticed was that several of the memory names started with a P instead of what I had programmed. Then, even worse, when I scrolled up to around memory location 380 (I don't remember the exact number), the radio locked up and required removing the battery. When I reinstalled the battery, it immediately locked up again, and I had to hold down the reset sequence and install the battery (which required more hands than I have) to reset it back to factory defaults. I reviewed the CHIRP file, which looked OK, but writing back to the radio gave the same results. Next I wrote the file to the radio, and then turned around and read it back into VX-6 Commander and compared it with the CHIRP programming. The only difference I could see was that Commander showed the Clock.Set bit was on for all the memories I pasted from my master CSV file. This bit can be set on a per memory slot basis, and is not visible on CHIRP. When I reset it on all memories, and then rewrote the file from Commander, the radio performed as expected.
So, did I run into both a CHIRP bug and a Yaesu firmware bug, or is this known behavior?
-Scott