Re: [chirp_users] Help needed, can't write to Yaesu FT-60

• A cable test as Rob suggested involves shorting two pins on the

cable--not something Chirp can do for you.

• This test will succeed regardless of baud rate.
• Chirp already reports an error on Ubuntu if permissions don't allow

opening the serial port (so nothing new needed here).

Further, if (as Rob suggested) you have a 3.3v converter in your cable, then a loopback test will succeed, even though a clone may fail. Claiming that the cable is good in such a way would mislead users away from legitimate cable issues I think, without providing *too* much benefit.

I'd rather spend time making sure that the drivers that expect echoes properly report the case where echoes are not received as a separate error from a lack of response from the radio.