Larry, Don't forget to point your audience to www.miklor.com for Driver Help. That is a good source.
I hope you don't mind, but I kept a copy of your presentation for new hams and new ARES members to enjoy. 73, Rich Holtman [email protected] AEC for Peoria County ARES (Illinois) KD9ANU On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:42 PM Larry Lovell <[email protected]> wrote: > I wish to thank all of you for your findings on the Yaesu radios. > I am giving a presentation on CHIRP to our local (Eastern Idaho) HAMs > tonight. > If you are interested, the PDF of my presentation is located at: > http://www.qrvtronics.com/CatHAM_Radio/files/UsingCHIRPorOtherSoftware.pdf > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:36 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well there's some truth there, but what truth I'm aware >> of should not scare anyone off from using chirp with Yaesus. >> >> Back in early 2014 I was doing some chirp code development >> on FT-60s, fixing some bugs and with the eventual goal of >> adding "Settings" control. Someone else has since done that. >> >> Part of that process is mapping the memory by twiddling bits >> in the image, uploading to the radio, and seeing through the >> radio's button interface what changed. It went pretty smoothly >> for a while, then I managed to brick *TWO* FT-60s. One of >> which was repaired by sending it to the factory to replace >> an eprom. >> >> I'm not going to add any further detail here, my investigation >> was pretty thoroughly documented in a thread on the chirp_devel >> mail list with subject "How to brick an FT-60" starting 3/22/14. >> See also Bug #1547: [FT-60] Chirp should check parity on download. >> >> But normal use of chirp to program radios doesn't do this. The >> user interface only lets you make limited, well understood >> changes to the radio image bitmap. I still do that with mine. >> >> -dan >> >> > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:05:06 -0600 >> > From: Larry Lovell <[email protected]> >> > Subject: [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu Radios using CHIRP >> > To: Discussion of CHIRP <[email protected]> >> > >> > Has anyone had a problem programming a Yaesu radio with CHIRP? >> > Someone mentioned that their Yaesu was damaged and had to be sent to the >> > factory because CHIRP had overwritten some code controlling the >> processor. >> > It also had to be re-flashed. >> > Since I don't fully understand how CHIRP works this doesn't make sense >> to >> > me, but knowing manufacturing companies, they may share Channel Memory >> with >> > processor memory and not think much about it. >> > Thanks for your information. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> chirp_users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users >> This message was sent to Larry Lovell at [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send an email to >> [email protected] >> > > > -- > Larry Lovell > 73's N7RGW > http://QRVTronics.com <http://qrvtronics.com> > Cell: 214-697-1729 > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Richard Holtman at [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected]
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