Mike, Jim, Milton, DJJ Ring: Thank you all for your responses to my plea for help. I have been successful in creating the program on a flash drive, thanks to Jim; thanks to Mike, I went to another buddy's house and got the correct cord! I'd been using the wrong cord, as it turns out. So, it did seem to download. However, it kept on being in the process of downloading, and nothing seemed to happen. I'm wondering now how long it takes for that process to be complete. But: progress is definitely being made! I'm grateful for the help, gentlemen.
Peter KO6R
________________________________ From: Mike Miller mike.kc9doa@sbcglobal.net To: Peter Strauss ko6r@yahoo.com; Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Baffled by CHIRP
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--Message-Boundary-3915 Hi Peter,
The FT-857 and FT-897 program through the 8 pin mini din CAT port. The FT-7900 is programmed (cloned) through the 6 pin data jack. If you plugged the 6 pin cable into the 6 pin data jack you probably didn't hurt anything. If you tried to stuff it into the 8 pin CAT port, you could blow the CAT port fuse and or smoke the cable.
73 Mike kc9doa
On 7 Sep 2013 at 14:47, Peter Strauss wrote:
Hello: I'm a newbie to this group.
I just was loaned a cable that works perfectly for my friend who has an FT-7900. I have an FT-897.
Questions: 1. Is there a problem with compatibility with the cable? The indicator does glow red when I'm plugged into a USB port. 2. I downloaded CHIRP to both my ubuntu 10.04 drive and my XP drive. On the Ubuntu version, there is no option for FT-897. That's version 0.2.1. On the XP drive, there is that option. However, for both, I get an error on the radio after I've hit transmit. On Ubuntu, I'm told that the header couldn't be read. No message on the XP version, but no luck either -- same error shows up on the radio. Now what? 3. Tried to figure out how to get an updated version for Ubuntu, so that I could find the FT-897 listed. Couldn't find that.
Feeling like a total dummy at this point, and disappointed that I couldn't just plug it in and go for broke. Any help greatly appreciated.
Peter KO6R
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