[chirp_devel] #112: Memory bank support for VX-8

[Jon K Hellan]

On 05/13/2011 05:21 PM, Robert Terzi wrote:
> Is the first step documenting how the VX-8 banks are
> stored in the memory image?   Has anyone started on this
> with the VX-8 or similar Yaesu?
>
> Is there bank support in chirp for any other radio?

Starting at 0x135A, there are 24 records with memory bank names. Each 
record is 18 bytes long.
In tests/images/vx8.img, they are as follows:

2 bytes 0x0
6 bytes "BANK 1" - "BANK24" in the label charset
10 bytes 0xff

The manual shows a bank named '2 m amateur band' - 15 letters. So the 10 
bytes are probably used for longer names. Could the 0x0 bytes be used to 
store name length, if it is "extra" length? I don't own a VX-8, so I 
can't try.

Ahead of the bank names, there are 72 records with 2 bytes 0x0 and 16 
bytes 0xff. May be they are names of something else.

Jon LA4RT

>
> On 5/13/2011 5:25 AM, CHIRP Tracker wrote:
>> #112: Memory bank support for VX-8
>> ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>>    Reporter:  jesper@…          |        Type:  Feature
>>      Status:  new               |    Priority:  Functionality
>> Milestone:                    |   Component:  Bank Editor
>>     Version:  0.1.11            |    Keywords:
>>    Platform:  Linux             |
>> ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>>    Chirp currently doesn't seem to support memory bank editing in Yaesu VX-8,
>>    though the VX-8 does actually have memory banks. Would it be possible to
>>    add support for it in chirp?
>>
>
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