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-20200104

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

Changes for Build #607 [Bernhard Hailer ham73tux@gmail.com] [vx8] #129, #1735 (same issue): fix for incorrect channel initializations

(resubmission)

Users complained that under certain circumstances 2m repeaters with negative offsets were not programmed correctly and resulted in a frequency offset or even an incorrect transmit/receive mode. Both issues #129 and #1735 essentially describe that same problem for the Yaesu VX-8. I ran into the same issue with a VX-8DR I just got - which made me dig into Chirp

Two bytes were found to be initialized differently when manually programmed, both were marked "unknown". After a few experiments these bytes could be (at least partially) identified. (A side product was that I found the bit responsible for narrowband transmit - that will be used in another patch fixing issue #1615 to enable this radio for Chirp's "NFM" mode).

Tested with a VX-8DR.

73 Bernhard AE6YN

#129 #1735