[chirp_devel] Starting development for Kenwood TS-590s

[Tom Hayward]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Derek Kozel <derek.kozel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I bought a TS-590s on Wednesday, my first HF radio! I've experimented with
> the serial command interface and a visual basic spreadsheet which loads and
> stores memories so I'm fairly comfortable with its interface. I don't know
> Python but am quite familiar with Perl and solid in Java and C so I'm not
> too worried about picking it up.
>
> I created a ticket to track the progress.
> http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/895
>
> Please let me know of any conventions or testing practices I should take
> note of.

Take a look at kenwood_live.py. You can probably extend that to
support the TS-590 with very little effort. I suspect the same
protocol is used. You will probably just need to decode the fields (I
think kenwood_live calls it mem_spec).

Tom KD7LXL