Did you just say Yaesu wants people to license (and pay for that license) to get access to their radio APIs?
And you say you were told this by a Yaesu representative?
I find that hard to believe.
I only know of one model of one radio that was bricked by third-party software (original FT-817, not FT-817nd), and it was because the third-party software did something it never should have done, and wore out a component that had a limited write cycle.
You are certainly free to make all future purchasing decisions based on a 25 year-old problem in one radio, but that seems sorta like a weak argument against Yaesu.
Then again, Kenwood shipped some radios where the exhaust fans were installed backward, so you'll probably never buy a Kenwood radio because of that. (They also shipped a bunch of radios with defective filters as I recall)
And you can't go with Icom, a number of examples of one of their current radios shipped and some heat sinks on certain ICs inside the radio weren't installed correctly...
Personally, I'd cut Yaesu some slack - those very same radios that shipped with the write-limited device are still popular, still in operation after 25 years. I think that's a testament to good design & engineering, but opinions vary.
Ken, N2VIP
On Oct 6, 2024, at 08:46, Henry Mensch via Users users@lists.chirpmyradio.com wrote:
I had a similar chat with yaesu about this. if their stuff is so fragile then I'll buy gear that's less fragile elsewhere. they want people to license their API (at an extra cost) and they seem to. forget that they're serving the amateur radio market which is supposed to provide opportunities to tinker with stuff.
- Henry N6HCM
Oct 1, 2024 19:14:37 Stiv Ostenberg via Users users@lists.chirpmyradio.com:
I dunno. I talked to the rep from Yaesu who warned me that Chirp could permanently brick my radio. He did not appreciate my feedback that if a user program could permanently disable a device, that struck ME as a pretty clear design flaw. Most devices are designed to protect core OS functions.
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