Hi all,

I recently purchased a FT5DR radio transceiver and note that at present, CHIRP does not yet support this model despite apparently supporting the earlier FT3DR.

Architecturally, both radios are apparently similar, but the FT5DR uses a different memory layout making it incompatible. I tried adding some memory channels manually through the keypad and retrieving the memory dump:

https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9365

I can figure out some bits of the dump, but I'm wondering if any of the format looks "familiar" to those who were involved in the FT3DR port, or if it's "totally new" and will require us to reverse engineer it from scratch. My hunch is maybe header fields have changed, but the actual channels themselves are the same.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty to implement support, right now though I want to see if there's existing code that I can lean on.

Regards,