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There was a thread about this recently about using Wireshark as an
alternative here:<br>
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href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2016-April/003966.html">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2016-April/003966.html</a><br>
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--David<br>
KI6ZHD<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/12/2016 09:53 AM, Nathan Crapo
via chirp_devel wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Looks like <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rtsystems.com">rtsystems.com</a> has software for
$49.00. :( And it's Windows only software, too. One route
would be to borrow/eval a copy of that, install it on a VM along
with Serial Port Monitor and get the protocol. Then add support
to Chirp and you'd give cross-platform programmability to
everyone. Maybe you're willing to make a $49 sacrifice to
enable everyone? I know a lot of people like CHIRP because it's
a universal tool for all their radios.
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<div>Another route is to "fuzz" the radio. You could form your
stimulus with the existing Alinco radio to speed things up a
bunch. It looks like the protocol for most models differ
pretty minimally for a given vendor.</div>
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<div>You're right: Serial Port Monitor is Windows only.
Unfortunately a lot of the OEM programming software is Windows
only as well. FWIW, Serial Port Monitor did do a really nice
job of documenting the protocol.</div>
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<div>I'm not a Windows fan, either. I don't even use it for
work much. I used a Windows 7 VM for the initial protocol
snooping, and then carried out the remaining dev in MacOS and
Linux. It's pretty easy to "pipe" your USB serial dongles
from the host to guest OS with VirtualBox, for example. I'm
sure other VM technology will do this as well.</div>
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