When you press the SET button again when in #7 screen hold it in a bit until the display resets. Just read that in your manual on page 66. On the FT8900 it's just a momentary press but otherwise the same procedure.
________________________________ From: Milton Hywatt mhywattt@yahoo.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
With no cable plugged in can you start the clone mode? My FT8900 will and will sit in RX waiting for data forever. Now if you go to TX it will time out because there is no cable but at least I've established that the radio is working. I don't know gives you instruction when to press for TX but the software has to be ready to RX or TX on the radio will time out. RX on the radio is more lenient. And Chirp might walk you through when to push what I don't know haven't used it yet. Usually though with radios that require timing to RX data from the radio the software should prompt you when to do what.
Your FT7900 clone mode is basically the same as my FT8900. Turn the radio on while holding the MHZ key. Rotate the channel encoder to item 7. Press SET again, the display blacks out then will come back saying CLONE. Then you can press VM or LOW and the radio will start to TX or RX.
First couple times I forgot to press SET again after selection #7. Give that a try.
________________________________ From: Dave Cavanaugh cavanadd@frontier.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:15 AM Subject: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
I am having trouble programming my radio via the programming cable.
I can get the radio into Clone mode by pressing the MHz PRI button on startup. However, it won't go into TX or RX by pushing the LOW/ACC or V/M MW button as described in the "cloning" section of the manual.
When I start Chirp and go to "download from radio" it gives me the box with Port com 3, radio Yaesu and Model FT-7800. When I try to download the profile from the radio I get the error message "failed to communicate with the radio: Failed to read header (0).
Now what?
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