[chirp_devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] [RFC] Radio Mods Interface

[Richard Farina]

On 04/07/11 17:59, Dan Smith wrote:
>> There's definitely a H/W mod option for the VX-8r for MARS type use.
> Yep, I had done it to my original 8R.  When I got it back from Yaesu
> after the 8DR upgrade, they put the resistor back :)
>
>> http://www.kb2ljj.com/data/yaesu/VX-8R.htm
>>
>> This claims to document a soft mod that's accessible via magic key
>> combinations but I don't know that it necessarily involves memory that's
>> exported in a clone
> I forgot about this entirely until just now.  I had tried it once upon a
> time and didn't get it to work.
>
> If, however, it does, then maybe we could use that to figure out where
> (if at all) it's triggered in the memory.  The string you type in
> (AH029) is, by the way, the model identifier that the PC and radio
> exchange during a clone.  So, we should know it for other radios as
> well, such as the VX3.  Might be worth a shot.
>
The magic menu stuff has at best left the radio unchanged and at worst 
found some rather unpleasant settings which can damage the radio.  Mind 
you I'm lumping all the magic menu hacks together here, but still, I've 
never found one that works.

Though anyone with the scruples to hardmod their radio I would love a 
hardreset/clone before and after image.

-Rick