I think what he meant was:
my problem is now the chirp for program the Yaesu FT-991 via Cat ( USB-USB ), under Windows 10 with RMS Software no problem,

This means he has used the 991 with RMS with the USB to USB cable showing us that it works.

 in the actual chirp version i did not can choose the FT-991 from the dropdown list.

This means he can't choose it because it's not there.

Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)

245 Corum Hill Road


On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:24 PM Dan Clemmensen <danclemmensen@gmail.com> wrote:
Amerigo, I don't completely understand your question. CHIRP is not a subsisitute for RMS (Winlink) software. Instead, CHIRP replaces or augments the Yaesu programming software for for your radio. You can possibly (probably) run your RMS Windows software on your Linux Mint system by running it under Wine, and you can almost certainly run the Yaesu software under Wine.

If you are asking about support for the FT-991 within CHIRP, then sorry, it's not there. CHIRP is Open Source software written entirely by unpaid volunteers who like to program and who like Ham radio. Each radio type needs to be separately analysed and a driver program written for it. The volunteer will need physical access to a radio to perform the analysis, and will need an absolute minimum of (say) 10 hours of work.  A volunteer who can do this in 10 hours can probably make more than $200/hr on a paid contract, so clearly this must be a "labor of love". Mere mortals will take longer than 10 hours. My guess is that in general a volunteer might program a CHIRP driver for a radio that they have chosen to use themselves, but are less likely to program for some random new radio unless there is a change that the new radio turns out to just need a minor modification or adaptation of an existing driver.

Speaking personally, I am a new CHIRP developer (and a new Ham). I purchased a Yeasu FT-4 before I had even heard of CHIRP, and was unhappy because I later discovered that CHIRP would be highly desirable in my application but the radio was unsupported. So, I wrote a CHIRP driver for it, and incidentally also for the FT-65, since they are very, very similar.  It's been a whole lot of fun, but it took multiple weeks of effort. From a purely financial perspective, it would have made far more sense to just buy a supported radio or even go out and get a 1-week programming gig and then go buy an even more expensive radio.

If you have any programming experience, Please consider trying to write a driver. It's really quite fun. Even if you don't have programming experience, you might want to try to do an initial analysis if the protocol, using some variation of the techniques described at :
    https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/DevelopersAdd_a_Radio

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:51 PM americo aldighieri <americo@aldighieri.ch> wrote:

dear all,

my name is amerigo, my QTH ist Tuggen / Switzerland. Ing. Informatic and Electronic

since 2 week all my systems are running under Linux Mint 19.1 , so far , so good.

my problem is now the chirp for program the Yaesu FT-991 via Cat ( USB-USB ), under Windows 10 with RMS Software no problem, in the actual chirp version i did not can choose the FT-991 from the dropdown list.

is there anybody, who can help me?

Asus Z87-Pro MB with 32GB RAM, Quadcore Intel i47xx, 120GB SSD and more

Linux Mint Version 19.1 with latest patches installed

the command "lsusb" show that the Cygnal Integrated Product CP210x UART Bridge succesfully activ with Device 014

best regards from tuggen

amerigo , hb9gii , 73
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