Hi,
I've just gotten a FT-817nd and started playing around with it using Chirp. Everything is looking great except one problem. It looks like if I create a memory entry with a CTCSS tone setting and it is written to a previously empty channel, when looking at that channel on the radio I will see a random 16 bit number (ie, 26654) instead of a formatted tone value (like "77.0"). (they don't appear to match; three channels all set to a 100.0hz tone will show three different random-looking numbers on the radio.) It does not transmit a correct CTCSS tone. There don't appear to be any other data errors.
If I overwrite the value using the radio, it then works fine. If I clone the radio to Chirp and then write it back immediately, the values are all still good, but I don't know if this is because it already contains valid contents or because i'm now writing valid contents.
Fwiw I am using debian linux and the daily build package from the apt repo, but the same thing appears to happen with the 0.2.2 tarball from the site. Further info: it is a recent-ish US model that's been MARS modded (no special channels) and thus I am using the "FT-817ND (Intl versions)" instead of the US version hardware type.
Anyway, I'm happy to try any suggested experiments or provide any further info if it would help. I also have a paid copy of FTBasicMMO which does write tones correctly, for comparison, but i'd much prefer to keep using chirp.
thanks for a fine piece of software! eric