[chirp_users] Chirp IndexError

[Benjamin Krueger]

On May 4, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Dan Smith wrote:

>> After a few minutes, an error popup reports "An error has occured,
>> ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found". Here's the
>> entire console stack trace:
> 
> That sounds like either (a) you're not using the right device for that 
> serial port, or (b) the connector isn't fully seated into the radio and 
> thus you're getting no data through.
> 
> You might open a serial console on that device.  At any baud rate, you 
> should see an echo of every key you type.  If local echo is enabled in 
> your terminal, then you'll see double.
> 
> If you keep the terminal at 19200 baud and hit the clone TX button on 
> your radio, you should see it fire "AH021" or something similar to the 
> terminal.  If it doesn't, then you know that it's between your machine 
> and the radio somewhere and not CHIRP-related.

Well, I get characters echoed, but no output from the radio in TX mode. I'll have to dig out another machine to see if this is a driver issue or cable issue. Thanks for the help!