[chirp_devel] Getting started with the Alinco DR-635

[David Ranch]

There was a thread about this recently about using Wireshark as an 
alternative here:

http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2016-April/003966.html

--David
KI6ZHD


On 06/12/2016 09:53 AM, Nathan Crapo via chirp_devel wrote:
> Looks like rtsystems.com <http://rtsystems.com> has software for 
> $49.00.  :(  And it's Windows only software, too.  One route would be 
> to borrow/eval a copy of that, install it on a VM along with Serial 
> Port Monitor and get the protocol.  Then add support to Chirp and 
> you'd give cross-platform programmability to everyone.  Maybe you're 
> willing to make a $49 sacrifice to enable everyone?  I know a lot of 
> people like CHIRP because it's a universal tool for all their radios.
>
> Another route is to "fuzz" the radio.  You could form your stimulus 
> with the existing Alinco radio to speed things up a bunch.  It looks 
> like the protocol for most models differ pretty minimally for a given 
> vendor.
>
> You're right: Serial Port Monitor is Windows only. Unfortunately a lot 
> of the OEM programming software is Windows only as well.  FWIW, Serial 
> Port Monitor did do a really nice job of documenting the protocol.
>
> I'm not a Windows fan, either.  I don't even use it for work much.  I 
> used a Windows 7 VM for the initial protocol snooping, and then 
> carried out the remaining dev in MacOS and Linux.  It's pretty easy to 
> "pipe" your USB serial dongles from the host to guest OS with 
> VirtualBox, for example.  I'm sure other VM technology will do this as 
> well.

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