[chirp_devel] Marco: Chirp and FT-897D

[Marco IZ3GME]

Yes! I know the two "peek&poke" command but at the start of ft8x7 
development we decided to go with clone to be safe.

I'm sorry to have no time for a longer answer but I think you can go 
back in archive and find the original discussion.

In any case I was thinking to make also the "non clone" driver once I'll 
have completed with all settings support.
I don't really have much spare time but work is going on.
I'm just a little scared that wrong timing or communication errors can 
lead the radio to write on the wrong area and you know the calibration 
parameter are there in memory.

BTW I would like to thank you again for your code which is really saving 
me some programming time.

73 de IZ3GME Marco

On 04/11/2013 06:46 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
> Marco:
>
> Presently, Chirp communicates with the Yaesu FT-897D only in clone
> mode.  It's been quite some time, but as I recall, one can read/write
> memory in the FT-897D (and I think the FT-857 and FT-817 series as well)
> using two commands (one for read, and one for write) that provide a
> radio memory address and just transfer just two bytes of memory.  As I
> recall, it was reasonably quick if the timing was right, to transfer
> significant amounts of data in a short time.
>
> Are you planning to make that kind of change to Chirp?  That would be
> more convenient for users than going into clone mode.  On the FT-897D,
> you have to press two ("MODE") buttons that are very close to each other
> and also close to a know, as you power on the unit. It's a little
> awkward, and even more so if one has fat fingers (I don't).  Then, if
> you accidentally remember the wrong pair of buttons and press the two
> "BAND" buttons just below the two "MODE" buttons when you power on, the
> radio executes the diagnostic "relay cleaning" operation.
>
> Just another "wild" suggestion ...
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