[chirp_devel] chirp_devel Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3

[curt solomon]

Can the admin call me ? I need help bad

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Yaesu FT2D and "preset channels" question (NNN Wx)


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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 15:39:45 -0600
From: NNN Wx <nthreewx at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Yaesu FT2D and "preset channels" question
To: Robert Terzi <rct at r-t.org>
Cc: chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com
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I?ve heard nothing else about this problem from the list, so I really hope
you?ve something to help in your notes!

It?s clear that the UI for banks will need to be changed and/or augmented,
and that part of the code is exceptionally opaque to me ATM.

Had you any ideas for even displaying the presets in the bank map? I?m
thinking that the ?channels? column on the left get augmented with, say ?WX
#0?? ?WX #11?? ?IVHF #0? ? ?SW #0? ? probably only as needed, with the same
types of bank checkboxes on the right across the screen. The FT2D radio
allows the presets to be interspersed with the memory entries and not
necessarily collocated at the end of the bank, so the chirp memory model
for the FT2D is already more restrictive than the radio (not necessarily
bad, but that?s how we got into this mess in the first place: something
doable with the radio breaks chirp.)

Unfortunately for the Yaesu FT2D and maybe the FT1D, the actual preset
frequencies don?t seem to reside in programmable memory and thus are not in
the radio image that chirp uses. Right now it seems one would have to
transcribe the information for ?preset channels? from the printed
documentation (and heaven help chirpers if the manufacturer changes those
listings somehow. chirp would then have to support ?stepping? versions of
the radio.) I can imagine that ?immutable memory? could hold these presets
but I don?t see any radios with such extensive data in that
poorly-described memory store. I could imagine that the flag bits would
just cause chirp and the UI to point to entries in ?immutable memory?
instead of the memory channels.

Declan Rieb WD5EQY
wd5eqy at arrl.net



> On Oct 6, 2017, at 15:16, Robert Terzi <rct at r-t.org> wrote:
>
> [Was just cleaning out some old list mail and came across this.]
>
> Thanks for working on this.   FWIW, This feature of preset channels goes
back to at least the VX-8 and probably earlier.   A long, long time ago,
The initial banks implementation in chirp crashed when loading my VX-8's
image because it contained preset channels in one of the banks.
>
> I did a little reverse engineering and what you discovered looks
familiar.  I have to see if I can find my notes.  I eventually gave up
because I realized it would need a decent bit of work to make chirp handle
this especially in the UI for working on the banks.
>
> (I was only scanning a handful of the Marine special/preset changes, so I
just added those to the 900 regular memories and problem solved.  I also
eventually got Uniden scanner which pretty much ended any
scanning/monitoring I was doing with the VX-8.)
>
> ?Rob


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