[chirp_users] Other Yaesus ... (Re: FT-7900r
Any way to get the FT90R or FT50RD included? Hint, hint. :-) I have the RT software for both, but the FT50 software won't even run on XP (I don't think).
Any way to get the FT90R or FT50RD included? Hint, hint. :-) I have the RT software for both, but the FT50 software won't even run on XP (I don't think).
I've spent quite a bit of time with both of these radios trying to write drivers. They are the only two I've ever given up on. I think the interest level is fairly low, and thus deemed it not worth my time to continue (after hours of trying).
The FT-50 clone process was never predictable and thus I didn't feel the driver was reliable enough to enable. The code for it is actually still in the tree, so if someone wanted to step up and try to figure out why the radio seems to do something different every time you do a clone, it should be fairly easy after that.
The FT-90 memory map seemed to not store the tone value per memory (although of course, it did, since the radio remembers more than one tone). I spent hours trying to figure out what was going on and eventually decided to quit. Again, I have partial code for this, if anyone is interested in taking it on.
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com wrote:
I've spent quite a bit of time with both of these radios trying to write drivers. They are the only two I've ever given up on. I think the interest level is fairly low, and thus deemed it not worth my time to continue (after hours of trying).
Understood.
What's the best way of downloading the source? I've built plenty of software back in the ./configure ; make; make install days, but that's not the same as getting in and mucking about with code. :-)
What's the best way of downloading the source? I've built plenty of software back in the ./configure ; make; make install days, but that's not the same as getting in and mucking about with code. :-)
Lets take this to chirp_devel if you're interested in diving in further. However:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers
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