[chirp_devel] Radioddity DB20G (aka Anytone 779UV)

[Craig Jones]

I stand corrected. I was going by screen shots of the official 
programming software and didn't see any SKIP/PSKIP.

On 7/20/2023 11:16 AM, Gary Pupurs wrote:
> It's been a couple months since I looked at code of all the Anytone 
> drivers, but I don't recall the 5888 memory map looking similar to 
> what I found in my DB20. IIRC, I used the 778 as my code base, but 
> would have to look to be sure.
>
> Scanning *is* supported on the DB20, you hit function-4 on the mic to 
> scan. And you can lock out channels, I have NOAA weather in there but 
> it skips that during scan. There are flags for things like compander 
> and scrambler as well.
>
> No banks or zones though, that would be nice (I really need a radio 
> with them, why don't more mfgrs have that?!). With 500 channels on 
> here, banks would be great for travel scanning. It does scan fairly 
> quickly though, at least.
>
> -g
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:10 AM Craig Jones via chirp_devel 
> <chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
>     Gary,
>
>     I took a quick look at the Anytone 779UV and it's probably pretty
>     close
>     to what I've been developing for the (Anytone-based) PowerWerx
>     DB750-X.
>
>     I started with anytone.py (for the AnyTone 5888UV), extracted out
>     some
>     common base classes, and then implemented my new driver from
>     there. It's
>     all working but I'm still crossing t's, dotting i's, and I had to
>     take a
>     break from that. I'll see if I can finish up in the next day or
>     two and
>     get that all checked in. (Whether or not my PR is approved, you'll
>     still
>     be able to take a look at my code).
>
>     // Craig
>
>     BTW, the main difference between the AnyTone 5888UV and the PowerWerx
>     DB750-X is that the latter has bank support and the bank number is
>     stored with the memory flags (Channel in use, Skip & PSkip), changing
>     the flags table from 4-bits per channel to 8 bits. Also, the
>     latter has
>     750 channels vs. 758 for the former. In your case I don't see that
>     scanning is supported at all, much less banks, so I wonder if you
>     even
>     have a flags table.
>
>     Anyway, watch for my PR soon.
>
>
>
>
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