Hello-
I've done quite a bit of searching, and I'm unable to find the answer to this: I have a Baofeng UV5r that I'm successfully programming with Chirp. I just picked up an FT-7900r and the RT Systems software/cable. I want to use the programmed channels, etc I have in the UV5r Chirp file and transfer them to the FT-7900r. Is this do-able, and will I be able to use the RT Systems cable? I'm on a Mac, and the daily release is working for me-will this also work on the new Yaesu, or should I d/l the stable release?
Thanks so much-
Jeff KF6DBA
Unless Chirp lists your radio in its pull down menu I doubt it will even recognize the FT7900. I do see a FT-7800 in the Mac daily release. Don't know if it will work with your 7900, you can always give it a try as it won't jeopardize the radio just to pull data from it.
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On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Jeffrey Deuel Jeff@deuelgroup.com wrote:
Hello-
I've done quite a bit of searching, and I'm unable to find the answer to this: I have a Baofeng UV5r that I'm successfully programming with Chirp. I just picked up an FT-7900r and the RT Systems software/cable. I want to use the programmed channels, etc I have in the UV5r Chirp file and transfer them to the FT-7900r. Is this do-able, and will I be able to use the RT Systems cable? I'm on a Mac, and the daily release is working for me-will this also work on the new Yaesu, or should I d/l the stable release?
Thanks so much-
Jeff KF6DBA _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Unless Chirp lists your radio in its pull down menu I doubt it will even recognize the FT7900. I do see a FT-7800 in the Mac daily release. Don't know if it will work with your 7900, you can always give it a try as it won't jeopardize the radio just to pull data from it.
The 7900 _is_ supported. The big fat list on the front page of the CHIRP website should make this obvious.
The 7900 differed from the 7800 only in marketing land. They're so similar it's almost nearly impossible for CHIRP to tell them apart.
Duh-I just reread the home page and saw it there. I was just a little thrown off because it didn't show in the drop-down. So, is the RT Systems cable compatible?
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On Feb 1, 2013, at 16:08, Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com wrote:
Unless Chirp lists your radio in its pull down menu I doubt it will even recognize the FT7900. I do see a FT-7800 in the Mac daily release. Don't know if it will work with your 7900, you can always give it a try as it won't jeopardize the radio just to pull data from it.
The 7900 _is_ supported. The big fat list on the front page of the CHIRP website should make this obvious.
The 7900 differed from the 7800 only in marketing land. They're so similar it's almost nearly impossible for CHIRP to tell them apart.
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Duh-I just reread the home page and saw it there. I was just a little thrown off because it didn't show in the drop-down. So, is the RT Systems cable compatible?
The cable can be made to be compatible. It has nothing to do with CHIRP, actually, but rather how RT systems tweaked the cable to make it not show up like most every other cable on the planet (for medium-good reason).
There is documentation on the wiki about cable issues like this, and information about how to work around this problem is there.
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