[chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
I am having trouble programming my radio via the programming cable.
I can get the radio into Clone mode by pressing the MHz PRI button on startup. However, it won't go into TX or RX by pushing the LOW/ACC or V/M MW button as described in the "cloning" section of the manual.
When I start Chirp and go to "download from radio" it gives me the box with Port com 3, radio Yaesu and Model FT-7800. When I try to download the profile from the radio I get the error message "failed to communicate with the radio: Failed to read header (0).
Now what?
Thanks Dave KG7HBQ
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Dave Cavanaugh cavanadd@frontier.com wrote:
I am having trouble programming my radio via the programming cable.
I can get the radio into Clone mode by pressing the MHz PRI button on startup. However, it won't go into TX or RX by pushing the LOW/ACC or V/M MW button as described in the "cloning" section of the manual.
Sounds like you're missing a step to put it into clone mode. From the manual:
"3. Rotate the DIAL knob on each radio to select (F-7 CLONE), then press and hold in the [ BAND ( SET )] key. The display will disappear for a moment, then the "CLONE" notation will appear on the display."
Tom KD7LXL
With no cable plugged in can you start the clone mode? My FT8900 will and will sit in RX waiting for data forever. Now if you go to TX it will time out because there is no cable but at least I've established that the radio is working. I don't know gives you instruction when to press for TX but the software has to be ready to RX or TX on the radio will time out. RX on the radio is more lenient. And Chirp might walk you through when to push what I don't know haven't used it yet. Usually though with radios that require timing to RX data from the radio the software should prompt you when to do what.
Your FT7900 clone mode is basically the same as my FT8900. Turn the radio on while holding the MHZ key. Rotate the channel encoder to item 7. Press SET again, the display blacks out then will come back saying CLONE. Then you can press VM or LOW and the radio will start to TX or RX.
First couple times I forgot to press SET again after selection #7. Give that a try.
________________________________ From: Dave Cavanaugh cavanadd@frontier.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:15 AM Subject: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
I am having trouble programming my radio via the programming cable.
I can get the radio into Clone mode by pressing the MHz PRI button on startup. However, it won't go into TX or RX by pushing the LOW/ACC or V/M MW button as described in the "cloning" section of the manual.
When I start Chirp and go to "download from radio" it gives me the box with Port com 3, radio Yaesu and Model FT-7800. When I try to download the profile from the radio I get the error message "failed to communicate with the radio: Failed to read header (0).
Now what?
Thanks Dave KG7HBQ _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
When you press the SET button again when in #7 screen hold it in a bit until the display resets. Just read that in your manual on page 66. On the FT8900 it's just a momentary press but otherwise the same procedure.
________________________________ From: Milton Hywatt mhywattt@yahoo.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
With no cable plugged in can you start the clone mode? My FT8900 will and will sit in RX waiting for data forever. Now if you go to TX it will time out because there is no cable but at least I've established that the radio is working. I don't know gives you instruction when to press for TX but the software has to be ready to RX or TX on the radio will time out. RX on the radio is more lenient. And Chirp might walk you through when to push what I don't know haven't used it yet. Usually though with radios that require timing to RX data from the radio the software should prompt you when to do what.
Your FT7900 clone mode is basically the same as my FT8900. Turn the radio on while holding the MHZ key. Rotate the channel encoder to item 7. Press SET again, the display blacks out then will come back saying CLONE. Then you can press VM or LOW and the radio will start to TX or RX.
First couple times I forgot to press SET again after selection #7. Give that a try.
________________________________ From: Dave Cavanaugh cavanadd@frontier.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:15 AM Subject: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
I am having trouble programming my radio via the programming cable.
I can get the radio into Clone mode by pressing the MHz PRI button on startup. However, it won't go into TX or RX by pushing the LOW/ACC or V/M MW button as described in the "cloning" section of the manual.
When I start Chirp and go to "download from radio" it gives me the box with Port com 3, radio Yaesu and Model FT-7800. When I try to download the profile from the radio I get the error message "failed to communicate with the radio: Failed to read header (0).
Now what?
Thanks Dave KG7HBQ _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
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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
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 _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
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 _____________________
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 _____________________
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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 _____________________
Milton pretty much got all of it.
A little more detail:
After successfully getting the radio into clone mode I started Chirp and told it to read the radio, and put the radio in TX mode. This downloaded the blank radio profile into Chirp.
Once I had the radio profile into Chirp, I had Chirp import my Anytone file. The Anytone Chirp file had previously been EXPORTED (this is the important part) from Chirp as a .CSV file. I told Chirp to import that file into the empty FT-7900 profile, which it did. All of the fields populated fine with one minor error message at the end, which I was able to ignore. The error message was due to a minor data format mismatch between the Anytone and Yaesu radios.
Anyway...once I had the Chirp file populated I told it to upload to the radio, and once the upload process started in the computer I put the radio in RX mode and the file went up the wire into the radio just fine. After a restart all of my 125 or so channels were in the radio and I was able to use the radio normally in channel mode.
Hope this us useful to someone in the future.
On 2/13/2014 2:36 PM, Dave Nathanson wrote:
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 _____________________
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Just one final thin Dave, you don't need to export as CSV with chirp. You can import the .img file from other radios without going through the CSV export. It usually works pretty well. However there are some cells in the row that are not compatible between radios. I've taken the .img file from my Anytone and just as a test imported it into my FT8900 template. There's a couple things it didn't like but only took me 5 minutes to sort out. Glad you're a happy Chirp user now. own 4 different brands of radios and use the .img import all the time.
Milton
________________________________ From: Dave Cavanaugh cavanadd@frontier.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900
Milton pretty much got all of it.
A little more detail:
After successfully getting the radio into clone mode I started Chirp and told it to read the radio, and put the radio in TX mode. This downloaded the blank radio profile into Chirp.
Once I had the radio profile into Chirp, I had Chirp import my Anytone file. The Anytone Chirp file had previously been EXPORTED (this is the important part) from Chirp as a .CSV file. I told Chirp to import that file into the empty FT-7900 profile, which it did. All of the fields populated fine with one minor error message at the end, which I was able to ignore. The error message was due to a minor data format mismatch between the Anytone and Yaesu radios.
Anyway...once I had the Chirp file populated I told it to upload to the radio, and once the upload process started in the computer I put the radio in RX mode and the file went up the wire into the radio just fine. After a restart all of my 125 or so channels were in the radio and I was able to use the radio normally in channel mode.
Hope this us useful to someone in the future.
On 2/13/2014 2:36 PM, Dave Nathanson wrote:
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 _____________________
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