[chirp_devel] FT-50R

[Dan Smith]

> For instance, for reasons that I am not clear on, it seems that every
> (Yaesu) radio programming tool requires that a cloned image be made
> of the radio, then updated, then sent back to the radio.  If I mess
> up this image and send it back to the radio, can I render the radio
> useless?

The short answer is: no, you won't brick the radio.

The long answer is: I've never bricked a radio and I've sent them all 
manner of broken stuff. You're not uploading firmware, you're just 
uploading a map of the memory channel data (and other settings). Icom 
radios are very good at sanity-checking the image and reporting error at 
the end (and then resetting). Yaesu radios (as in many areas) are far 
less careful and will often accept any image you send that is in the 
right format and size. The worst I've ever seen is when you boot the 
radio back up, the internal firmware reads some of your garbage and does 
something weird (potentially locking up, but that's very rare). Pulling 
the battery and doing a key sequence to reset memory on power on always 
clears that out.

So, I can't make any promises, but I highly recommend you not worry 
about bricking it :)

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS