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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-02-18 19:26, Dan Smith wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">ps: Now if someone can give me some hints as to how to add support
for banks "B" thru "E" on the IC-7000, I will be really happy (# 551)
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The CIV drivers are a bit messy, but it shouldn't be that hard. I'd
guess one of the zero bytes is the bank number, so I'd just start
incrementing them one at a time until you get back a B-bank memory :)
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Questions:<br>
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<li>Yes, that's what I thought I'd try as well. Does Chirp
include a tool to send random CI-V commands to the IC-7000, and
display the results? I thought I remembered seeing such a tool
somewhere ...</li>
<li>On the Icom D-Star radios, you treat the successive 100-entry
memory banks as one large contiguous bank; a good idea for
those radios. However, the IC-7000 has five 99-entry banks, so
I think making them contiguous might make for confusing
numbering of the memory. The alternative of creating a bogus
entry to make the numbers "match" (which is what I would do if
it was just me using the software), would work but could
introduce confusion as well. Creating a separate memory tab for
each bank would be best, but I don't know how to do that, and
that involves an architectural design issue that should be
consistent across radios, I'd think.</li>
<li>I haven't done anything to my Chirp repository since I
submitted id51.py. While I can blow away the repository and get
a new copy, my guess is that's not the best way. What method do
you recommend? HG "revert" or "update"?</li>
<li>[change of subject] Yes, the D-Star callsign "tag" field is
missing from id31.py. I'll create a bug, fix it, and submit it.</li>
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-- Dean<br>
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