[chirp_devel] How to brick an FT-60

[jon]

On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 17:17 -0700, chirp.cordless at xoxy.net wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Long (for the details) sad story, but interesting, I think.
> 
> To refresh your recollection, in early February I tentatively signed
> up to reverse engineer the map of settings in the Yaesu FT-60 memory,
> pending any surprises that made this a bigger task than I expected.

I would try de-soldering the 24C256 and soldering a new one in.  Most
probable cause of its death is passing the maximum write cycles for the
eeprom. With luck the yaesu firmware is bright enough to initialise a
blank one ..... with luck !

Jon