[chirp_devel] New user here - TS-2000 support

[Dan Smith]

> 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.

This is just how those radios are, and it's how chirp works on them as well.

> 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? 

Well, it's a lot more work on Windows than Linux, of course, but it's
doable. If you would be willing to document the process on the wiki as
you go through it, you'll earn major points with me that you can cash in
later :P

On my build machine I have the following:

 - Python 2.7
 - pywin32-216
 - pygtk-all-in-one-2.24.2
 - libxml2 2.7.7
 - py2exe 0.6.9 (not really required for you)

Links:

  http://python.org
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.24/
  http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/

The source is here, using mercurial:

  http://d-rats.com/hg/chirp.hg

Also check out some of the links here:

  http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers

Thanks!

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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