[chirp_users] VX5 trouble

[Stephen Black]

On 3/6/2012 10:28 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
> Fair warning: I have never laid hands on a VX-5. I wrote the driver
> purely in speculation and have had reports that it works.
>
>> Now I put the VX5 in memory recall mode and look for memories 201-216.
>> They're not there! However, if I try to create a new memory with the
>> VX5, the VX5 shows those slots are taken.
> Perhaps the driver is not properly setting some used/empty bit?
>
>> No luck. I got CLONE ERROR on the display, and this in the terminal:
>>
>> "Clone failed: Radio did not ack block 1"
> If this happened and then you were able to upload/download it again
> later, I think it was probably an intermittent cable/connection issue,
> or some stale data in the serial buffer.
>
>> 9. Download from radio VX5
>> 10. Add memory 1: 146.52
>> 11. Upload to radio VX5
> Does this mean add memory 1 where it didn't exist before? If so, that
> blows my theory above out of the water.
>
>> I'm not sure what to try next. I can provide img files if needed.
> If I were you, I'd start downloading images, making small changes,
> downloading more images and doing the binary diff dance. I can do it for
> you, but it's much (much) harder to do so without hands on the radio. I
> can help you through it on IRC if you like :)

hi Dan
I have a vx-5. just let me know if you need it for testing. Steve KB1CHU
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