[chirp_devel] TYT TH-8600

[Andy Knitt]

Sounds good, thanks Gary.  I'll let you know when I have something ready to
test.  I'm getting close, but it's throwing me some curve balls.  Unlike
every other TYT radio, this silly thing sends the data across the wire in
ASCII format rather than binary.  I've got it dumping the memory to me but
I need to work through converting it back to binary for CHIRP to unpack and
then go from there.  I think I have the memory channel portion of the
memory map more or less worked out and will dig into the radio-wide
settings once I can successfully read & write.

For those that are more experienced than me...what are the odds of bricking
the thing with a bad write?  My assumption is that they should be
reasonably tolerant, but I want to get a feel for how confident I need to
be in my code before I start attempting writes.

Andy

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:06 PM Gary Pupurs <garyrp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I bought one also when on sale this spring with this intention, but
> haven't actually powered it on yet! (Unfortunately I accidentally bought
> the non-waterproof version.)
>
> I'm new to Chirp driver development but willing to work with you on
> testing or coding an 8600 driver.
>
> I've started working on my first driver, for the Radioddity DB20G (aka
> Anytone 779UV, Retevis RA25, prob also the DB20UV). I need to send a status
> message to the list on that!
>
> Also have a working driver for the old Quansheng UV50R I found online that
> I need to upload via proper protocol that for some reason never got
> published in CHIRP by its original creator. Been using over a year with no
> problems.
>
> -g
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 10:07 PM Andy Knitt via chirp_devel <
> chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently purchased a TYT TH-8600 and am starting working through
>> mapping out the memory so that I can hopefully eventually put together a PR
>> to add support for this radio, as it's been requested quite a few times.
>>
>> This will be my first attempt to do this and I have a couple newbie
>> questions:
>>
>> 1 - Does anyone have any recommendations for a similar TYT radio that I
>> should look to use as a 'closest' starting point?  I've been looking at a
>> few different TYT models and while the themes are similar there are some
>> reasonably big differences among them.  I'm not familiar enough with their
>> product line to know which ones might be the closest to the TH-8600.  If no
>> one knows, I'll just suffer though figuring it out.
>>
>> 2- This radio supports a few features ( 2Tone & 5Tone signalling, etc.)
>> that aren't typically used in amateur radio.  Is it normal practice to
>> fully tease out the entire memory map and add support for these types of
>> things to CHIRP, or just skip them?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy KN1TT
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