Motorolas are supported by CHIRP. Sorry, OM.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Wimal Manage w.manage@gmail.com wrote:

Can CHIRP use with MOTOROLA ?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Build System donotreply@danplanet.com wrote:

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Greetings,

A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location:

http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20151130

A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows:

Changes for Build #371 [Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com] Re-fix some pep8 fails from #3017

[Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com] Fix some pep8 fails from #3017

[Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com] Add images for #2169

[Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) co7wt@frcuba.co.cu] [FD-268x/288x] New Driver, fix issue #2169

This are full support for Feidaxin models:

FD-268A (VHF) FD-268B (UHF) FD-288A-ANI (VHF) FD-288B-ANI (UHF)

In the file are commented the definition to other models that looks promising, I need radio to test it's support

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On Dec 1, 2015, at 04:24, Marco Filippi IZ3GME iz3gme.marco@gmail.com wrote:

Surely a typo: Motorolas are NOT supported by CHIRP.

Let me add that they will never be supported ... till motorola changes it's "sue policy"

73 de IZ3GME Marco

Ideal opportunity for me to ask about the “sue policy”. Could you elaborate?

I have always been wondering why the open source software community did not come up with a “chirp-like” program so that hams are able to take advantage of what appears to be an increasing number of used Motorola items that I see showing up at hamfests.

I generally don’t even give them a glance because it was my understanding that the expense of programming software, only available from Morotola, made then not cost-competitive with other radios.

Jerry AB3SX

The main reason there are so many Motorolas or other mostly commercial or public safety type radios have been showing up at hamfests, etc., is because when the FCC mandated narrow band for those uses, the radios were not capable of operating legally in those areas anymore. The only legal use left for them was ham, even though they were way too expensive for most people, and very hard to reprogram without the special software usually available from the manufacturer only at great cost. Part of the requirement for these radios was the users could not program radios themselves. It is a great privilege ham radio operators have to be able to use whatever freqs are available in our license range, without the restrictions of Part 90. Of course, the assumption is that licensed ham radio operators have more knowledge than the Part 90 users, and will actually follow the rules of Part 97, but we all know how well that works. Most of the old Part 90 radios should just be recycled, but people try to sell them anyway. Even big name ham radios cost less than most pure Part 90 radios, and are far easier for a ham to use.

Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio

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On Dec 16, 2015, at 04:58, John Wuest jhwuest@gmail.com wrote:

My reply was a brain freeze moment. I meant to state that CHIRP does NOT support Motorola.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:04 AM, jerome whelan whelanjh@gmail.com wrote:

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On Dec 1, 2015, at 04:24, Marco Filippi IZ3GME iz3gme.marco@gmail.com wrote:

Surely a typo: Motorolas are NOT supported by CHIRP.

Let me add that they will never be supported ... till motorola changes it's "sue policy"

73 de IZ3GME Marco

Ideal opportunity for me to ask about the “sue policy”. Could you elaborate?

I have always been wondering why the open source software community did not come up with a “chirp-like” program so that hams are able to take advantage of what appears to be an increasing number of used Motorola items that I see showing up at hamfests.

I generally don’t even give them a glance because it was my understanding that the expense of programming software, only available from Morotola, made then not cost-competitive with other radios.

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