[chirp_devel] Marco: Chirp and FT-897D

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

No problem;  clone mode works fine.  I just wanted to make sure you knew 
of the commands*.*  Yes, there are timing issues ...

On 2013-04-11 11:11, Marco IZ3GME wrote:
> 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 ...
>>
>> Are you planning to make that kind of change to Chirp?  That would be
>> more convenient for users than going into clone mode. ...

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