Check out Icom's line of digital radios.  They're supporting D-Star.

Only reason I bought the Yaesu is it was on sale and I figured I'd try it out.  It's not a bad radio, just don't like the closed architecture.

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 8:42 AM Chuck Hast <kp4djt@gmail.com> wrote:

All of the above just goes to confirm why I will NOT buy Yaesu. They sold  boat load of C4FM repeaters most

of which are doing analog because they are not connected to the net. Yes you can use a MMDVM and build

your own, but go buy a non-yeasu radio that supports their closed protocol.

I purchased a D-Star handheld from HRO  in Portland back in 2008, it was years before I got to use it on D-Star

and it is an open protocol but no manufacturer wanted to support it. Even now only Kenwood is producing radios

that do D-Star. 

I have had to deal with RT-Systems and I did not care for their "our way or the highway " attitude. 

In amateur radio we are SUPPOSED to open things up change them use other bits and pieces on them, those

who demand a walled garden should not get our money.  Yaesu is outstanding in that way. Indeed I have always

associated them with box operators, not nitty gritty hams who want to dig into the technical side of things.

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:03 PM Sid Hayn <sidhayn@gmail.com> wrote:

I would wager that my driver sends the same everything as well. Honestly never checked, never bought the RT systems software.

The cable voltage issue is a wild guess, which at least made more sense to me than anything else.

On Fri, May 24, 2019, 22:54 Dan Clemmensen <danclemmensen@gmail.com> wrote:

Since your CHIRP driver almost certainly send exactly the same that the Yaesu software would send, It's likely that you woold have seen the same reslult if you had been using the Yaesu software. This is speculation on my part. A spike on a USB-to-serial cable is not very likely unless you somehow had a ground loop?

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:39 PM Sid Hayn <sidhayn@gmail.com> wrote:

I helped write the Yaesu VX-3R driver
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/entry/chirp/drivers/vx3.py#L1

About a year after that, (and using the radio a good bit) the radio
appeared to lose power while I was writing to it.  The battery was
tested and charged, still no love.  I sent it to Yaesu and the
replaced some minor part (*not* the flash) but sadly I don't have the
documentation on what anymore.  After they sent it back to me I didn't
use it as much (I had more radios by this point).  About a year ago I
started using it more heavily and 6 months ago the same thing happened
(with the writing and the dying).

In no way do I "blame chirp".  In fact, I'd more likely blame a
problem with the cheap cable possibly having voltage spikes and the
radio not being designed to handle a small voltage spike over the
serial and shorting something out.  That said, twice my vx-3r has died
while writing to it from chirp.

Thanks,
Rick

PS> I don't sell anything, I don't work on radios for a living, and I
love chirp.  I don't believe there is any possible way someone could
suggest I'm biased aside from unlucky personal experience.

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> Never bricked any of mine.
> Could it be the operator rather than the radio?
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