On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 8:11 PM Joseph E. Rouillier III
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All
>
> Thank you for taking your time to look at this issue.  I have a Yaesu VX-170 
> that I came across.   Once I got it home I did a reset on the radio to bring 
> it back to factory defaults.   Next I tried reading the radio from Chirp, 
> (Download from Radio).   That fails no matter what I try it will not download 
> the file from the radio.
>
> The radio almost immediately shows error after pressing push to talk seeing 
> TX.  and then in chirp I see Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read 
> header (0)
>
> Attached is the Debug.
>
> Also just for testing I got a VX-170 file from a friend and tried to download 
> it to the radio also had errors.   As soon as I get the radio into RX Chip 
> shows a error indicating Radio did not ack block at 0 the radio screen never 
> shows error it continues to show RX.
>
> See attached Debug.log file.
>
> Note I tested the cable to see if it was the problem borrowed a friends cable 
> as well, both cables same issue, and both cables successfully program an 
> FT-60 and my friend is able to read/write his VX-170 with his cable and my 
> cable and he sees the same errors as I do when trying my radio.
>
> I tested the jack with a speaker mic to make sure the jack seems to be 
> working correctly, speaker mic work fine can RX and TX.
>
> Finally in desperation I removed the battery and opened the little cover 
> under the battery and confirmed the radio was modded by someone removing the 
> 1 0 ohm resistor, and it looks like it only had 1 resistor as the 2nd upper 
> one looks to clean as if it was never there from the factors.   I believe the 
> MOD is Expanded RX or TX I do not recall as I've never needed to perform the 
> mod was aware of it from researching the radio itself.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.  Attaced is the debug file that should contain 
> both Download and Upload from Radio failures.

Not that I can help with this issue, but I don't see an attached debug.log file.

Jim KC9HI
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