[chirp_devel] help interpreting a hexdump

Rob Owens
Wed Jan 24 12:44:18 PST 2018


Thanks.  So here's a follow-up question.  Here is the vendor's response,
verbatim:  "0x0187,B3:Wirelsee start,B2:function enable".  Do you suppose
the B3 and B2 refer to the third and second bits within the 0x0187 byte?
Is that typical notation?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Rhett Robinson <rrhett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, hexdump prints each line as 16 bytes: two blocks of 8 bytes each,
> beginning with the address of the first byte. So, in your example:
> 00000180  63 ff ff ff 32 ff ec f3  f2 87 44 03 14 23 01 01
> |c...2.....D..#..|
>
> The first byte, 63 is at 0x180. The second byte, ff is at 0x181. The 7th
> byte, at address 0x187, is f3. After that it is f2 at 0x188, 87 at 0x189,
> 44 at 0x18a through 01 at 0x18f. So each block will be 0x???0 through
> 0x???f.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Rhett
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Rob Owens via chirp_devel <
> chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
>> Here are two consecutive lines from a 'hexdump -C' of a Chirp image:
>>
>> 00000180  63 ff ff ff 32 ff ec f3  f2 87 44 03 14 23 01 01
>> |c...2.....D..#..|
>> 00000190  0f 37 1d 65 05 f0 fc d3  00 0a 0a 00 3c 00 e3 3c
>> |.7.e........<..<|
>>
>> Based on information from the radio vendor (Leixen), I am interested in
>> memory address 0x0187.
>> Is that the "f3" byte?
>>
>> I understand the concept of different base numbering systems, but I'm
>> rusty.  And I'm brand new to this Chirp driver stuff...
>>
>> -Rob
>>
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