[chirp_devel] Yaesu FT-897D support

[David Ranch]

To reinforce what Marco said, I recently found a program called 
"Softjump" that could enable wider-band TX on the FT-857 purely with CAT 
commands!  I tried and tried and it wouldn't work both with his code and 
my own code derived from his CAT commands.  I was going to contact the 
author but when I looked at his QRZ page, he stated there that Yaesu 
evidently removed those specific undocumented CAT commands back in the 
2004 timeframe.  :-(   So, though I *do* think it would be worth adding 
this interactive method to read/write the Yaesu radios like we can with 
Kenwood, we should probably get the Clone approach down solid first.

Btw, lots of good FT-8x7 information here: 
http://www.kb2ljj.com/data/yaesu/ft-857.htm

--David


IZ3GME Marco wrote:
> Hi Emil
>
>   
>> I have found a wee Perl script that extracts the EEPROM from Yaesu FT-8x7 transceivers via the CAT interface and outputs it as an ASCII hexdump to the console. This can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.0xdecafbad.com/2009/08/ft897-eeprom-dumper/
>>
>> No need to put it in clone mode either. :-)
>>     
>
> Yes, we know that there are undocumented cat commands to peek and poke 
> directly in memory but we considered safer to use the clone protocol.
> BTW on that site they confirm my suspect that 857 and 897 share the same 
> memory map, that's why we are confident that you could clone your 897 
> using chirp 857 driver.
> Please give a try to "clone tx" from the radio.
> Naturally _you must not try_ to "clone rx" before being able to complete 
> correctly the tx or you can erase all your setting including memories.
>
>
>   
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