<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">Did you say that although the radio appears unresponsive,</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>will it still "act" as if it will clone? If so, will it upload or download, or both?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Also,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Will it visibly go into
alignment mode?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
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<div><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B17O00'">To enter the Alignment mode:
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Press and hold in the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B25O00'">MONI </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B25O00'">LAMP </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">switches turn-
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ing the radio on. Once the radio is on, release these
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">[</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B80O00'"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">(</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B25O00'">MHz</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">)] [</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B25O00'">0</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">( )</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B25O00'">SET</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">]<br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Press the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">[</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B25O00'">F/W</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: 1pt;">] </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">key to cause “</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TT3B7CO00'">A0 REF.xxx</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">” to appear on
the display for five seconds, this signifies that the trans-
ceiver is now in the “Alignment Mode.”</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: TT3B17O00; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">... </span></div>
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</div><div>I would be curious to examine your "bad" image vs a previous "good" image, vs even one you might have taken much, much earlier in your development process.</div><div>Can you share them privately with me directly off-list?</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-Jens</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "chirp.cordless@xoxy.net" <chirp.cordless@xoxy.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:32 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_devel] How to brick an FT-60<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I think not. The radio state gets saved in flash every power off, at least.<br>Kind of dwarfs a few hundred clone writes. And the radio was fairly new<br>as these things go. And modern flash is usually good for 10K - 100K writes.<br>But it's plausible for the first radio's failure. Part of a spectrum of stuff<br>related to what I said might be abuse, which also includes a lot of<br>serial cable in & out, knob twiddling, ... <br><br>But the new one died the day it was purchased, after two OK clone writes.<br>On the third, with the same image that killed the first one, it died<br>with the same symptoms. I'm not buying flash write wearout.<br><br>The bits
did it.<br><br>-dan<br><br>On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:02 PM, jon - <a ymailto="mailto:jon@jonshouse.co.uk" href="mailto:jon@jonshouse.co.uk">jon@jonshouse.co.uk</a> wrote:<br>> <br>> I would try de-soldering the 24C256 and soldering a new one in. Most<br>> probable cause of its death is passing the maximum write cycles for the<br>> eeprom. With luck the yaesu firmware is bright enough to initialise a<br>> blank one ..... with luck !<br>> <br>> Jon<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_devel mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel" target="_blank">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel</a><br>Developer docs: <a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers"
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