Yaesu engages in FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, marketing. It's because they've entered into a marketing agreement with a for-profit company to produce software for modifying their radios. Therefore, a group of amateurs who have written open-source software that Yaesu can't make money off of, they'll make all sorts of claims about it "bricking" Yaesu radios. I've yet to meet a single person who has experienced it first-hand. Only people who know others who have supposedly had their radios bricked with Chirp.
I wouldn't worry about it at all.
Of course, I no longer buy Yaesu for that, and other reasons.
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM howard--- via Users < users@lists.chirpmyradio.com> wrote:
I have an FT817ND and an FTM7250DR, both of which are listed as supported radios. However, I have seen a number of posts on the internet from Yaesu stating that using Chirp with Yaesu radios may damage them. On the 7250, Chirp uses the clone mode of the radio which, to my mind, is a very safe way to go. I am not sure how it works with the 817. I would like to use Chirp with both but I am, of course, worried by the Yaesu statements. Are these statements still valid? Or have they been invalidated by progress within Chirp? Or were they not valid in the first instance but a reflection of some other issue? Thanks for any information on this. Howard, VK4BS _______________________________________________ Users mailing list users@lists.chirpmyradio.com https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/postorius/lists/users.lists.chirpmyradio.com To unsubscribe, send an email to users-leave@lists.chirpmyradio.com To report this email as off-topic, please email users-owner@lists.chirpmyradio.com List archives: https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/hyperkitty/list/users@lists.chirpmyradio.com/