<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for the prompt reply.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*sigh* OK. I’ll try to start. I’ve been reading the instructions.<div class="">I’ve already dumped the microSD-based file (“BACKUP.DAT”) and have some inkling of at least the gross features of memory format. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Yaesu-supplied ADMS-8 software can build files, so I don’t need to have the radio in the loop all the time. I suspect it possible to get a basic memory map within a shortish time. I’ll try to compare and contrast the FT1 based upon the template in the source code. I’m so new to the VHF world that I don’t understand most of the options that are accessible to the programmable capability, so it’ll probably only be a beginning.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately for me, the FT2D data connection has been impossible to use. I believe that the FT2D uses a straight USB cable with an internal UART-to-USB connection, and no driver I’ve tried allows serial ports to connect to the radio. I conjecture that multiple serial ports* are multiplexed over the same USB) I am able to move the BACKUP.dat file between radio and computer by using the microSD card. So a <i class="">sine qua non</i> for me to use chirp for now is to be able to send the erstwhile serial data to and from a file. Having scanned the template, I’m guessing that <span class="fu">do_upload</span>(radio) and <span class="fu">do_download</span>(radio) will need to support file-based rather than serial I/O based. That may be A Big Deal for chirp.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* microphone/speaker/camera, memory programming, and software update all seem to be included. The FT2D has a separate microphone/speaker connector, but the USB connector takes priority: completing a USB connection stops the audio to internal or external speaker.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On May 28, 2017, at 18:20, Angus Ainslie <<a href="mailto:angus@akkea.ca" class="">angus@akkea.ca</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div><snip></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I'm pretty sure no one has done significant work on the FT2D.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I did do a lot of work on the FT1D and I'm assuming it's not that different. Unfortunately I don't have a FT2D to work with.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">With the origiinal FT1D driver it was hundreds ( it not thousands ) of memory dumps to get the correct offsets for the settings.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Angus</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>