Hello, In my recent experience programming an Yaesu FT60R, two issues popped up: 1) finding the correct driver for the cable chipset, and 2) holding the PTT button long enough. The chipset driver information was here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41
About half way down the page, in red is a link to an app that identified the Prolific the chipset. Other chipset manufacturers may have similar tools. "Run PL2303 CheckChipVersion tool..." This helped tremendously in identifying the correct driver. Holding the PTT button long enough came from page 65 of the FT-60R manual, in the section on Cloning. After resolving these two issues, I was able to download memory contents to CHiRP, edit, and upload back to the HT.
Hope this helps. 73, Ken KI7EIH
Ken Cone kencone@gmail.com KI7EIH
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jack Haverty k3fiv@arrl.net wrote:
Since I also just started using Chirp I'm no expert, but I had a similar first-time experience (Ubuntu 16.04 and Baofeng BF-F8HP). It turned out that all that I had to do was turn up the audio volume on the radio and everything started to work fine.
Great program!
73, /Jack de K3FIV
On 07/22/2016 08:30 PM, CN85rq wrote:
These are my first attempts at using CHIRP and I'm not having much luck. I've tried connecting to two different radios from two different computers with a total of three different CHIRP versions and three different cables. I could easily be missing some tribal knowledge known to experienced users, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction for a solution.
CONFIGURATION #1 Computer: Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P motherboard, MCS9865 serial card, running Debian 7 (Wheezy) Radio: Kenwood TM-V71, connected with Kenwood PG-5G PC Serial Programming Cable CHIRP Version: 0.1.12 (from the Debian repository) Symptom: “Download From Radio” results in a “No response from radio” message Additional Info: The timestamp on /dev/ttyS0 updates when the radio is turned on.
CONFIGURATION #2 Computer: Raspberry Pi 1 Model B, running Raspian (Jesse) with Compass mods by NW Digital Radio Radio: Kenwood TM-V71, connected (first) with a generic USB-Serial cable (unknown chipset) and (second) with a Sabrent CB-FTDI USB-Serial cable (FTDI chipset) CHIRP Versions: (first) 0.4.0 and (second) chirp-daily-20160717 Symptom: “Download From Radio” results in a “No response from radio” message Additional Info: Tested with and without the “console=serial0,115200” setting in the /boot/cmdline.txt file Additional Info: Serial speed on radio tested at both 9600 and 19200
CONFIGURATION #3 Computer: Raspberry Pi 1 Model B, running Raspian (Jesse) with Compass mods by NW Digital Radio Radio: Alinco DR-235 MkIII, connected (first) with a generic USB-Serial cable (unknown chipset) and (second) with a Sabrent CB-FTDI USB-Serial cable (FTDI chipset) CHIRP Versions: (first) 0.4.0 and (second) chirp-daily-20160717 Symptom: “Download From Radio” results in a “No response from radio” message Additional Info: Tested without the “console=serial0,115200” setting in the /boot/cmdline.txt file
CONSOLE WINDOW OUTPUT captured for Configuration #2 root@compass:/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717# ./chirpw
(process:911): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ./chirpw:135: GtkWarning: gtk_window_realize_icon: assertion 'info->icon_pixmap == NULL' failed a.show() ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up ERROR: Timeout waiting for data ERROR: Giving up Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/ui/mainapp.py", line 1430, in mh self.do_download(*args) File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/ui/mainapp.py", line 691, in do_download radio = settings.radio_class(ser) File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/drivers/kenwood_live.py", line 159, in __init__ radio_id = get_id(self.pipe) File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/drivers/kenwood_live.py", line 121, in get_id raise errors.RadioError("No response from radio") chirp.errors.RadioError: No response from radio
root@compass:/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717#
CONSOLE WINDOW OUTPUT captured for Configuration #3 root@compass:/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717# ./chirpw
(process:980): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ./chirpw:135: GtkWarning: gtk_window_realize_icon: assertion 'info->icon_pixmap == NULL' failed a.show() ERROR: -- Exception: -- ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/ui/clone.py", line 249, in run self.__radio.sync_in() File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/drivers/alinco.py", line 196, in sync_in self._mmap = self._download(self._memsize) File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/drivers/alinco.py", line 138, in _download data += self._download_chunk(addr) File "/usr/local/bin/chirp-daily-20160717/chirp/drivers/alinco.py", line 116, in _download_chunk raise errors.RadioError("No response from radio") RadioError: No response from radio
ERROR: ---------------- ERROR: Clone failed: No response from radio ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: No response from radio --- ERROR: None
ERROR: ----------------------------
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