Re: [chirp_users] testing (daily on FT 2800M)
I just gave the 8/17 build a try on my 2800M also. I was not able to upload back to the radio. The terminal output was either "Failed to read echo" or "Radio did not ack ID"
Attached is a sample of terminal output and an .img file.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:00 PM, jim gibbens wetboy133@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Dan-
I installed the 8/17 daily build of CHIRP and gave it a whirl.
On the FT-2800m, I was able to download a file from the radio and the data looks fine. I was able to export to .csv and .chirp without error, but could not upload the .img file back to the radio. No error message, it just did not work. The upload to the radio did work with the 8/11 build.
On the TH-K2, I was able to download a file from the radio and the data looks fine. I was able to export to .csv and .chirp and I could modify the file "live" and correctly download the file with changes back from the radio. So this one seems to be working pretty well as far as I can tell.
On the IC-W32A, I was not able to download a file from the radio. It gave an error "class IC9xICFRadio has no attribute '_model'". See below. I'd saved a .img download off the radio from the last session and I was able to upload that .img file to the radio.
Thanks,
Jim Givens KJ7F
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I just gave the 8/17 build a try on my 2800M also. I was not able to upload back to the radio. The terminal output was either "Failed to read echo" or "Radio did not ack ID"
Hmm, I assume you put it into receive mode before you hit the OK button on the clone settings dialog box, right?
I recall it being quite a bit more finnicky than most radios... Can you guys try it a couple times, rebooting the radio into clone mode and putting it back into receive each time before you try? If that works, then I might just need to make the clone start code a little more "gentle".
I was composing a response email to explain that I'd tried it more than 20 times to no avail. Before hitting send I decided to try it again. Finally I got the data to upload to the radio; however, I can't discern anything I did differently on the final attempt.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com wrote:
I just gave the 8/17 build a try on my 2800M also. I was not able to upload back to the radio. The terminal output was either "Failed to read echo" or "Radio did not ack ID"
Hmm, I assume you put it into receive mode before you hit the OK button on the clone settings dialog box, right?
I recall it being quite a bit more finnicky than most radios... Can you guys try it a couple times, rebooting the radio into clone mode and putting it back into receive each time before you try? If that works, then I might just need to make the clone start code a little more "gentle".
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I was composing a response email to explain that I'd tried it more than 20 times to no avail. Before hitting send I decided to try it again. Finally I got the data to upload to the radio; however, I can't discern anything I did differently on the final attempt.
Ah, okay. As far as I could tell, I get once chance to start the transfer with the radio. If it fails, the radio has to be rebooted into clone mode before it will try again. Does anyone know if other programming software is like this?
As far as what's different, I think the procedure needs to be:
1. Connect the cable to your serial port and to the radio 2. Power on the radio into clone mode 3. Get chirp to the clone settings dialog 4. Hit the button on the radio that puts it into receive mode 5. Click okay on the chirp window
If there's a required delay between 4 and 5, I can enforce that in the code. While I had the radio I was able to get the procedure down fairly repeatably, but it is definitely the most fragile cloning process I've seen.
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