> I have an FT817ND and an FTM7250DR, both of which are listed as supported > radios. However, I have seen a number of posts on the internet from Yaesu > stating that using Chirp with Yaesu radios may damage them. > On the 7250, Chirp uses the clone mode of the radio which, to my mind, is a > very safe way to go. I am not sure how it works with the 817. > I would like to use Chirp with both but I am, of course, worried by the Yaesu > statements. Are these statements still valid? Or have they been invalidated > by progress within Chirp? Or were they not valid in the first instance but a > reflection of some other issue?
Of your options, I'd say "not valid in the first place". Yaesu has never reached out to the project to complain (or help), but I've heard the same rumors of passive-aggressive bashing. The 817 has been in use by tons of CHIRP enthusiasts for a very long time, and even provided the first (only?) solution to fix their 60m channel memories when the details needed changing. That said, I will say that Yaesu radios are the least-robust of really any radio I've ever worked on. Their programming protocols and memory formats are more fragile than $25 chinese handhelds, with no good excuse for why. They're the only radios that (still) require a silly dance of coordinated button-pushes and software clicks, they don't actually reset their memories when you ask them to (they just mark all the channels as deleted), and they don't do much checking of the content you send them over the wire. It's totally inexcusable for an expensive computer-programmable device in 2025 to claim that sending something bad over the wire could cause it physical harm, but that's the implication of their claims. I feel like you're probably in good company with other 817 users. The 7250 was a hot mess that is now discontinued, IIRC. There were apparently some silently-incompatible firmware version discrepancies floating out there, so your mileage with CHIRP may vary. I can definitely say you'd be better off replacing your Yaesu radios with something better and then you don't have to worry about it :) --Dan _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/postorius/lists/users.lists.chirpmyradio.com To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] To report this email as off-topic, please email [email protected] List archives: https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/
