Hello Everyone,
KI6ZHD here. I just discovered Chirp as I was looking for some way of synchronizing the memories across my F6A, two D710s, and a VX5 in a Linux-only environment. I did some tests and it seems that the Kenwood TH-F6A support is close but it's missing the memory's NAME which is very important to me. I then tried the Kenwood D710 which communicated but didn't support and a Yaesu VX5 didn't work at all. I also noticed I couldn't save any downloaded data nor upload anything back to the radios (see below). The F6A and D710 are the priority radios for me and the VX5 is a backup. Any thoughts on getting the F6A and the D710 working?
Taking it a step further, I'm ideally looking for is a memory syncronization tool across different radios. I'm not looking for full backups (though that would be nice like Kenwood's Windows applications) but memories is good enough.
Any possibility of coming up with a system that would:
- load multiple radio's data at the same time - merge and navigate conflicts (move memories I added in the Car or at Home) and allow me to move them into free slots - come up with a new master file - program them back into each of the radios
I know that I could manually do this with Chirp with say CSV files but I think a merging feature like this would be a fantastic.
--David
Chirp 0.11.b4 Running on Centos 5.5 GTK 2.10.4 PyGTK 2.10.1
Three radios here are tested - Kenwood TH-F6A - Kenwood TM-D710 - Yaesu VX-5
------------------------------------------- Kenwood TH-F7A -------------------------------------------
Recognizes TH-F6A fine !! does NOT download memory's names !! cannot select File --> Save As !! cannot Radio --> Upload to radio
recognition sequence -- [dranch@hampacket chirp-0.1.11b4]$ ./chirpw PC->V71: ID V71->PC: ID TH-F6 PC->D7: ID D7->PC: ID TH-F6 Talking to a TH-F6 PC->D7: AI 0 D7->PC: ? Starting memedit Bank Index supported: False Bank supported: False DTCS Code supported: True DTCS Pol supported: False Mode supported: True Offset supported: True Name supported: True Tune Step supported: True Name supported: True ToneSql supported: True Cross Mode supported: False Started PC->D7: MR 0,000 D7->PC: N PC->D7: MR 0,001 D7->PC: MR 0,001,00145390000,0,2,0,1,0,0,12,08,000,000600000,0,0 PC->D7: MNA MNA 0,001 . . . --
------------------------------------------- Yaesu VX5 (non-R) -------------------------------------------
Selecting Radio VX3
Program reports 000: 98 80 06 18 78 86 80 60 ....x..` 008: 78 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 x.......
Selection of VX3, VX6, and VX7 does not work:
VX5 commander (Windows) DOES work for me:
http://www.kc8unj.com/vx5.html
--> Cancel does NOT work
program shows -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/archive/Chirp/chirp-0.1.11b4/chirpui/cloneprog.py", line 58, in <lambda> cancel_b.connect("clicked", lambda b: cancel()) File "/usr/src/archive/Chirp/chirp-0.1.11b4/chirpui/clone.py", line 200, in cancel self.kill(CloneCancelledException) File "/usr/src/archive/Chirp/chirp-0.1.11b4/chirp/chirp_common.py", line 765, in kill import ctypes ImportError: No module named ctypes --
------------------------------------------- Kenwood D710 ------------------------------------------- PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: ID TM-D710 --- Exception Dialog: Unsupported model `TM-D710' --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/archive/Chirp/chirp-0.1.11b4/chirpui/clone.py", line 153, in run cs.radio_class = detect.DETECT_FUNCTIONS[vendor](cs.port) File "/usr/src/archive/Chirp/chirp-0.1.11b4/chirp/detect.py", line 117, in detect_kenwoodlive_radio raise errors.RadioError("Unsupported model `%s'" % r_id) RadioError: Unsupported model `TM-D710' ----------------------------