With all the abrupt comments on this. I feel obliged to say thank you again. I am using this for programing my radios and several other Ham friend's radios. Generally any problems I have come back to operator error.
If everybody that uses CHIRP as I do will make a small contribution to the cause, you'll sleep better at night and encourage Dan and the team. Thanks again.
73, Tom
Hello everyone,
Well here is what I did. I have tried the daily version of CHIRP in both Mac and Windows. Neither one can see my 7900. I have tried to use the 7800 in the list of Yaesu list, and it is a no go. I have looked for the driver that I think is missing form CHIRP to see this radio, and I am at a loss to find one. If anyone else has CHIRP working in either Mac or Windows with the 7900R Please let me know how you did it. I really really love CHIRP and want to use it with my radio.
Thank you all in advance.
Mark Fernandez Manchester, MI USA
The driver has to do with the USB/serial chip in your cable, not so much with the radio type. I've got two Yaesu radios working with chirp on a Mac, so I'll try to help there. I don't do Windows. 8-)
But once you find your Mac driver, you can likely get a Windows driver from the same place.
Plug in the cable and look at About this Mac -> More Info ... -> System Report -> USB. Find your cable in the device tree and select it. It's probably either Prolific or FTDI. Tell us which, and we can move forward with identifying what driver you need. If you can't figure it out from the deice display, copy/paste that.
-dan
On Mar 11, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Apple //GS - apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
Well here is what I did. I have tried the daily version of CHIRP in both Mac and Windows. Neither one can see my 7900. I have tried to use the 7800 in the list of Yaesu list, and it is a no go. I have looked for the driver that I think is missing form CHIRP to see this radio, and I am at a loss to find one. If anyone else has CHIRP working in either Mac or Windows with the 7900R Please let me know how you did it. I really really love CHIRP and want to use it with my radio.
Thank you all in advance.
Mark Fernandez Manchester, MI USA
Hello Dan :)
The cable is CT29B Radio Cable:
CT29B Radio Cable:
Product ID: 0x9e54 Vendor ID: 0x2100 Version: 6.00 Serial Number: RTWA39NN Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: RT Systems Location ID: 0xfa123000 / 8 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 90
My computer is an iMac Mid 2011 with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
I run Windows 7 from Bootcamp in a separate partition.
Thank you very much.
-Mark
On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:03 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
The driver has to do with the USB/serial chip in your cable, not so much with the radio type. I've got two Yaesu radios working with chirp on a Mac, so I'll try to help there. I don't do Windows. 8-)
But once you find your Mac driver, you can likely get a Windows driver from the same place.
Plug in the cable and look at About this Mac -> More Info ... -> System Report -> USB. Find your cable in the device tree and select it. It's probably either Prolific or FTDI. Tell us which, and we can move forward with identifying what driver you need. If you can't figure it out from the deice display, copy/paste that.
-dan
On Mar 11, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Apple //GS - apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
Well here is what I did. I have tried the daily version of CHIRP in both Mac and Windows. Neither one can see my 7900. I have tried to use the 7800 in the list of Yaesu list, and it is a no go. I have looked for the driver that I think is missing form CHIRP to see this radio, and I am at a loss to find one. If anyone else has CHIRP working in either Mac or Windows with the 7900R Please let me know how you did it. I really really love CHIRP and want to use it with my radio.
Thank you all in advance.
Mark Fernandez Manchester, MI USA
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello Dan :)
The cable is CT29B Radio Cable:
CT29B Radio Cable:
Product ID: 0x9e54 Vendor ID: 0x2100 Version: 6.00 Serial Number: RTWA39NN Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: RT Systems Location ID: 0xfa123000 / 8 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 90
RT Systems cables are designed to work *only* with RT Systems software. There are two options for getting this cable to work with any other programming software: modify your OS X driver, or modify your cable. I modified my cable (this is a firmware mod, no soldering required).
Modify the cable's FTDI firmware: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2013-January/002988.html
Modify OS X driver: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2012-September/002612.ht...
Tom KD7LXL
Hi Tom,
I an in Windows mode right now, and I did download the FTDI-FT-Device: 0
Now what? I feel so dumb, but I have no idea what to do. I am sorry to all of you for asking what must be simple stuff.
-Mark
________________________________ From: Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Mon, March 11, 2013 1:30:50 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Yaesu FT-7900R driver needed. I think :)
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello Dan :)
The cable is CT29B Radio Cable:
CT29B Radio Cable:
Product ID: 0x9e54 Vendor ID: 0x2100 Version: 6.00 Serial Number: RTWA39NN Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: RT Systems Location ID: 0xfa123000 / 8 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 90
RT Systems cables are designed to work *only* with RT Systems software. There are two options for getting this cable to work with any other programming software: modify your OS X driver, or modify your cable. I modified my cable (this is a firmware mod, no soldering required).
Modify the cable's FTDI firmware: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2013-January/002988.html
Modify OS X driver: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2012-September/002612.ht...
Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:52 AM, M.F. apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi Tom,
I an in Windows mode right now, and I did download the FTDI-FT-Device: 0
Now what? I feel so dumb, but I have no idea what to do. I am sorry to all of you for asking what must be simple stuff.
I don't remember exactly what it looks like, but in FT_Prog, select the Vendor ID and reset to default, then select the Product ID and reset to defaults. Note that this will make the cable incompatible with RT Systems software. You can, however, reverse the process by typing the original Vendor and Product IDs back into FT_Prog.
Tom KD7LXL
Not quite my experience. Note I'm the author of the second link below, under "Modify OS X driver". That's what I _ENDED UP_ doing, because it amused me, and there were some small benefits, as that post explains.
However, go back to earlier in that same thread, here: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2012-September/002585.ht...
You can get this working in a turnkey manner by loading the Mac driver that RT systems provides. And BTW, I don't know where you got your RT Systems cable, but it likely comes with a CD with the Windows driver you need.
In the middle of that post is the link you want for the Mac driver: http://www.rtsystemsinc.com/kb_results.asp?ID=9 and if you search around on that same support site, I think you'll find the windows drivers. Here: http://www.rtsystemsinc.com/kb_results.asp?ID=15
If you want more details, please read those two posts, and maybe some more of that same thread.
-dan
On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:30 AM, "Tom Hayward - esarfl@gmail.com" wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello Dan :)
The cable is CT29B Radio Cable:
CT29B Radio Cable:
Product ID: 0x9e54 Vendor ID: 0x2100 Version: 6.00 Serial Number: RTWA39NN Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: RT Systems Location ID: 0xfa123000 / 8 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 90
RT Systems cables are designed to work *only* with RT Systems software. There are two options for getting this cable to work with any other programming software: modify your OS X driver, or modify your cable. I modified my cable (this is a firmware mod, no soldering required).
Modify the cable's FTDI firmware: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2013-January/002988.html
Modify OS X driver: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2012-September/002612.ht...
Okay.
First thank you all so very much trying to help me CHIRP now has " /dev/cu.usbserial-RTWA39NN " in the pull down menu. I picked both the 7800 and the 8900 to test to see if one of them would work.
This is what it said to be on both tries: Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
…….. :(
-Mark
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:28 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
Not quite my experience. Note I'm the author of the second link below, under "Modify OS X driver". That's what I _ENDED UP_ doing, because it amused me, and there were some small benefits, as that post explains.
However, go back to earlier in that same thread, here: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2012-September/002585.ht...
You can get this working in a turnkey manner by loading the Mac driver that RT systems provides. And BTW, I don't know where you got your RT Systems cable, but it likely comes with a CD with the Windows driver you need.
In the middle of that post is the link you want for the Mac driver: http://www.rtsystemsinc.com/kb_results.asp?ID=9 and if you search around on that same support site, I think you'll find the windows drivers. Here: http://www.rtsystemsinc.com/kb_results.asp?ID=15
If you want more details, please read those two posts, and maybe some more of that same thread.
-dan
On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:30 AM, "Tom Hayward - esarfl@gmail.com" wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello Dan :)
The cable is CT29B Radio Cable:
CT29B Radio Cable:
Product ID: 0x9e54 Vendor ID: 0x2100 Version: 6.00 Serial Number: RTWA39NN Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: RT Systems Location ID: 0xfa123000 / 8 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 90
RT Systems cables are designed to work *only* with RT Systems software. There are two options for getting this cable to work with any other programming software: modify your OS X driver, or modify your cable. I modified my cable (this is a firmware mod, no soldering required).
Modify the cable's FTDI firmware: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2013-January/002988.html
Modify OS X driver: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2012-September/002612.ht...
chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Did you put the radio in clone Tx mode after telling chirp to read the radio?
Sounds like you've got the driver installed ok.
-dan
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Apple //GS - apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Okay.
First thank you all so very much trying to help me CHIRP now has " /dev/cu.usbserial-RTWA39NN " in the pull down menu. I picked both the 7800 and the 8900 to test to see if one of them would work.
This is what it said to be on both tries: Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
…….. :(
-Mark
I turned the radio on while holding the "MHz/PRI" button. Then turned the dial to F-7 CLONE
Should I do something else?
-Mark
On Mar 11, 2013, at 6:35 PM, chirp.cordless@xoxy.net wrote:
Did you put the radio in clone Tx mode after telling chirp to read the radio?
Sounds like you've got the driver installed ok.
-dan
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Apple //GS - apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Okay.
First thank you all so very much trying to help me CHIRP now has " /dev/cu.usbserial-RTWA39NN " in the pull down menu. I picked both the 7800 and the 8900 to test to see if one of them would work.
This is what it said to be on both tries: Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
…….. :(
-Mark
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I turned the radio on while holding the "MHz/PRI" button. Then turned the dial to F-7 CLONE
Should I do something else?
You missed a step. Page 66 of your manual:
To clone from one transceiver to a computer, use the following procedure: 1. Insert the Cloning Cable into the DATA jack of the transceiver. 2. Turn transceiver off, then press and hold in the [MHz(PRI)] key while turning the power on again. 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. 4. In Chirp, select Download From Radio 5. Now, on the “Source” radio, press the [V/M(MW)] key. The “- - TX - -” indicator will appear on the display, and the cloning data transfer will immediately begin. 6. If there is a problem during the cloning process, “ERROR” will be displayed. Check your cable connections, and try again. 7. If cloning was successful, “CLONE” will reappear the radio display. Chirp will present your memory channels in a spreadsheet format.
Tom KD7LXL
Okay. First thank you and Dan so much!! :)
Well, I got CHIRP to see the radio, after following what you said (I feel soooooo dumb, I should have re-read that stuff) thanks.
I got CHIRp to download from the 7900. I then input some channels from the Repeater Book input.
The channels went in to the CHIRP spread sheet.
I then tried to upload back to the radio……………..
THis it what it says now:
Radio did not ack block at 0
-Mark
On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I turned the radio on while holding the "MHz/PRI" button. Then turned the dial to F-7 CLONE
Should I do something else?
You missed a step. Page 66 of your manual:
To clone from one transceiver to a computer, use the following procedure:
- Insert the Cloning Cable into the DATA jack of the transceiver.
- Turn transceiver off, then press and hold in the [MHz(PRI)] key
while turning the power on again. 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. 4. In Chirp, select Download From Radio 5. Now, on the “Source” radio, press the [V/M(MW)] key. The “- - TX - -” indicator will appear on the display, and the cloning data transfer will immediately begin. 6. If there is a problem during the cloning process, “ERROR” will be displayed. Check your cable connections, and try again. 7. If cloning was successful, “CLONE” will reappear the radio display. Chirp will present your memory channels in a spreadsheet format.
Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Ah-haaaaa. I got it!! I had to get it in RX mode to upload. :D
-mark
Sent from M. Fernandez
On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Okay. First thank you and Dan so much!! :)
Well, I got CHIRP to see the radio, after following what you said (I feel soooooo dumb, I should have re-read that stuff) thanks.
I got CHIRp to download from the 7900. I then input some channels from the Repeater Book input.
The channels went in to the CHIRP spread sheet.
I then tried to upload back to the radio……………..
THis it what it says now:
Radio did not ack block at 0
-Mark
On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I turned the radio on while holding the "MHz/PRI" button. Then turned the dial to F-7 CLONE
Should I do something else?
You missed a step. Page 66 of your manual:
To clone from one transceiver to a computer, use the following procedure:
- Insert the Cloning Cable into the DATA jack of the transceiver.
- Turn transceiver off, then press and hold in the [MHz(PRI)] key
while turning the power on again. 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. 4. In Chirp, select Download From Radio 5. Now, on the “Source” radio, press the [V/M(MW)] key. The “- - TX - -” indicator will appear on the display, and the cloning data transfer will immediately begin. 6. If there is a problem during the cloning process, “ERROR” will be displayed. Check your cable connections, and try again. 7. If cloning was successful, “CLONE” will reappear the radio display. Chirp will present your memory channels in a spreadsheet format.
Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
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You guys are the GREATEST! Thank you all so much.
-Mark
Sent from M. Fernandez
On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Mark Fernandez apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Ah-haaaaa. I got it!! I had to get it in RX mode to upload. :D
-mark
Sent from M. Fernandez
On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Okay. First thank you and Dan so much!! :)
Well, I got CHIRP to see the radio, after following what you said (I feel soooooo dumb, I should have re-read that stuff) thanks.
I got CHIRp to download from the 7900. I then input some channels from the Repeater Book input.
The channels went in to the CHIRP spread sheet.
I then tried to upload back to the radio……………..
THis it what it says now:
Radio did not ack block at 0
-Mark
On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Apple //GS apple2gs@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I turned the radio on while holding the "MHz/PRI" button. Then turned the dial to F-7 CLONE
Should I do something else?
You missed a step. Page 66 of your manual:
To clone from one transceiver to a computer, use the following procedure:
- Insert the Cloning Cable into the DATA jack of the transceiver.
- Turn transceiver off, then press and hold in the [MHz(PRI)] key
while turning the power on again. 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. 4. In Chirp, select Download From Radio 5. Now, on the “Source” radio, press the [V/M(MW)] key. The “- - TX - -” indicator will appear on the display, and the cloning data transfer will immediately begin. 6. If there is a problem during the cloning process, “ERROR” will be displayed. Check your cable connections, and try again. 7. If cloning was successful, “CLONE” will reappear the radio display. Chirp will present your memory channels in a spreadsheet format.
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Apple //GS -
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Tom Reis