Thanks Milton, I'm always happy to hear about what works! :-)
Dave C if you have anything to add - I'm happy to hear that too.
Either way, I like to try & get the winning answers into the permanent record. I know from my own experience that these little details (exact & in sequence) can be important when you're trying to transfer to or from a radio.
Best, Dave Nathanson
On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Milton Hywatt mhywattt@yahoo.com wrote:
Hate to answer for another but the step he was missing was to press and hold SET until the radio was ready to rx or tx data. He was half way there by holding down the MHZ key while powering up. Then rotating the channel knob to F7 CLONE. Now he can press and hold the middle button BAND/SET until the display blacks out and then release the button and the display comes back with CLONE. He was missing that step. Now he can set his software to rx or tx data and then hit the appropriate button on the radio to start the transfer. TX or RX will appear on the display depending on what he wanted to do. The last time I programmed my FT8900 which is nearly identical in setting it up to clone I too forgot to press set. On the 8900 you just press it momentarily. the 7900 you press and hold. That is what Joe was referring to down at the bottom of this message. More than a momentary push of SET on the FT8900 will cause the transfer to fail. I'll have to give that a try to see what exactly happens.
Milton
From: Dave Nathanson KG6ZJO@nathanson.org To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:57 AM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
Hey Dave C, so what was the full final winning procedure that worked for you?
Best, Dave Nathanson
On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Dave Cavanaugh cavanadd@frontier.com wrote:
Thanks for all of the help; after reading all of the responses to my post and re-reading the manual I realized I was missing a step in the clone procedure. After I fixed that I eventually figured out the correct sequence for downloading a clone of the radio into Chirp, then importing my old Anytone file into the FT7900 file and then uploading it into the radio. Works fine now.
On 2/12/2014 3:17 PM, Joe wrote:
This may be a similar problem that drove me crazy on the FT-8900. After you select CLONE START, only press the [SET] key for 1/2 second, no longer! A longer push will cause it to fail.
73, Joe, K1ike _____________________