[chirp_devel] Programming the Yaesu FTM-400d

[Kurt Zeilenga]

On Jan 9, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Jens J. <kd4tjx at yahoo.com> wrote:

> err.. C++ (pre-emptive strike on the purists ;)
> 
My C++ here is more C than C++, I think.  It's not object oriented code for sure.

> I meant - would you be willing to try to build a chirp module for it?

I'm willing to provide assistance in reverse-engineering the Yaesu file formats and testing...   but as I don't know Python and don't have any real interest in learning it (and I hate GUI development), this will probably be the extent of my contributions to chirp.

> Chirp supports radio module classes of both a file-based radio image and a clone-based image. (There is a live-updated type, but I dont think Yaesu fits this model).
> 
The FTM-400d supports writing three data files, a system configuration file, a memory channel file, and a combined "clone" file.

I only support the memory channel file which includes home channel, 2 banks of 500 per transceiver channels, and 9 frequency ranges for scanning functionality.  My support is partial... I haven't sorted out the complete format, such as non-standard repeater offsets.

> Even if not, again, thank you for sharing with the community!
> 

You are welcomed.  And thank you for chirp.  I only recently become aware of its existence... and found it a suitable replacement for the windows-only programmer I had long ago purchased for my VX-8G.   One thing I'm likely to do every soon is provide conversion of my XML format to your CSV format...  just so I can have a common channel source file for both my radios.

-- Kurt

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> 
> From: Jens J. <kd4tjx at yahoo.com>
> To: "chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com" <chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Programming the Yaesu FTM-400d
> 
> Kurt,
> Thanks for sharing. I see it's written in C.
> 
> How is your python? ;)
> 
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> From: Kurt Zeilenga <kz7zzz at boolean.net>
> To: chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com 
> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:12 AM
> Subject: [chirp_devel] Programming the Yaesu FTM-400d
> 
> I purchased a FTM-400d recently...  seeing no available programmer for it, I coded up basic programmer to export and import channel information from the unit's memory channel files which it can be made to save on a micro-SD Card.  My code is rather primitive but serves my purposes well.  I bring it to this communities knowledge simply because it might serve as a useful reference to anyone wanting to add FTM-400d file support to chirp.  My code can be found at <https://github.com/kz7zzz/ftm-400d>.
> 
> 73s, -- Kurt
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