[chirp_users] Help needed, can't write to Yaesu FT-60

[Guy Teague]

might look over this thread '[chirp_users] Please post'.

i have chirp working on an imac running osx 10.7.4 (now 10.7.5). here is
the driver i'm using:

unfortunately i can't link directly to the driver--that would be too easy
by far. the main page is: http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/CustomerLogin.aspx and
then you have to hit the support tab, then login using guest/guest. then
you can get to the driver page and select the mac driver that matches your
os version. i'm using 10.7.4 (lion).

if the installer works right, when you try to transfer from the radio to
chirp you should see  '/dev/cu.usbserial' as an option. i found a quirk
where i couldn't upload to radio unless it was in vfo mode.

good luck,

/guy


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:41 PM, <chirp.cordless at xoxy.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to Chirp, and enthusiastic about the possibilities, but
> if it can't write to my radio, my enthusiasm will wane quickly.
> There has to be too many of these out there for it not to be
> a problem with my setup, but I'm not sure where to start.
>
> Setup:
> New MacBook running OSX 10.8.2. Chirp is 0.2.3.
> Cable is from eBay, using a PL2303 chip, driver obtained from your
> pointer, I think.
> Fairly new Yaesu FT-60, 12 memories used.
> Trying to load another 100 for the local standardized CERT list, massaged
> from a spreadsheet into a .csv format that Chirp finally seems happy with,
> and
> which looks sane in the Chirp display.
>
> I am able to read the FT60 into Chirp just fine, and repeatedly, no errors.
> What I see in Chirp is pretty much what I expected to see.
> After massaging, I tried to write it back. I think I've got the dance
> right:
> Put the FT60 in clone Rx mode and then hit the OK button in Chirp's
> Upload popup. [ Just for grins I tried it in the "wrong" order, that
> doesn't
> work either. ]
>
> Nothing happens. The FT60 stays in Rx mode as though nobody has
> tried comm with it. No progress bar as with a radio/radio clone, and no
> error display. Just waiting in Rx, forever.
>
> The Upload popup in Chirp disappears, there looks to be a flash of a small
> popup
> too fast to read, and nada. The radio, after power off/on, still has the
> original 12
> memories programmed, but nothing else. No error messages I can see.
>
> I tried a different FT60, same result. Reseated the cable several times.
> The cable is plausibly suspect (I don't have another), but I don't think it
> can read and not write, it needs both data directions for either, doesn't
> it?
>
> I can't find any debug information within Chirp or the Mac console logs,
> but maybe I don't know where to look. The "raw data" in the developer tools
> just looked like a very short data structure, nothing that looked
> meaningful
> to me. Please advise how I can go about troubleshooting this, or what I
> might
> be doing wrong.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> -dan
>
>
>
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