[chirp_devel] New user here - TS-2000 support

[Tom Wilson]

Hi, all.

I recently discovered Chirp, and I am hoping to be able to customize it to
work with my Kenwood TS-2000.

After writing a programmer for the TS-2000 in C#, I am starting to love
Kenwood's communication protocol. There's no "memory dump" programming
method here; the radio actually validates input and uses an actual
command/response system for programming the machine.

The nice part is that you can program just what you need: setting one menu
change or one memory slot is a cinch. On my Yaesus, it was all or
nothing... on this rig, changing the PL tone of one channel without
affecting anything else is simple.

So here's my situation: I am an experienced programmer. You talk to me
about technical stuff and I follow right along. I've already written a
programmer for the TS2K, even though it doesn't have much of a UI.

However, I don't know Python - at all. I do know c and its descendants
(C++, C#, Java, etc), VB (both VBA/VBScript and .Net), and enough php to
get by... but I've never set up a Python dev environment.

So is there a site where I can get the whirlwind tour on setting up a
Windows box to use Python? Also, which source control tool will I need for
downloading from the repository?

Thanks for your help
-Tom


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Tom Wilson
wilsontp at gmail.com
(619)940-6311
KI6ABZ
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