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

[Guy Teague]

i'm just throwing this out there because you seem to be stuck, but i have
one of the chinese uv5r radios and the other day i could not get chirp to
write to it despite it having worked perfectly for the week previous. for
some reason i changed it from channel/memory mode to vfo mode and it
starting writing perfectly. i was so surprised i toggled it a couple of
times and sure enough that was the key to a successful write. it would be
amazing if the same applied to your japanese radio, but won't cost you
anything to try changing some of the radio modes to see what happens.

good luck, /guy (73 de kg5vt)

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, <chirp.cordless at xoxy.net> wrote:

> Jay,
>
> My sincere thanks for the effort. Your mail came as I was just finishing
> up the
> unsuccessful testing. I got the driver that the link pointed to,
> uninstalled the
> official Prolific driver I installed yesterday, installed the new one per
> the
> instructions, and even did a system reset to make sure things were cleaned
> up, though the instructions seemed to load the extension live.
>
> I have /dev/cu.PL2303-00402214
> and this is what Chirp finds in the popup for radio comm, and what I'm
> using.
>
> Symptoms are unchanged. I can read the FT60 just fine through this port.
> Write does nothing, not even trashing the ten memories in the radio.
> The radio just hangs in --Rx-- forever.
>
> I know that the radio can be written to in clone mode after recovering from
> yesterday's mess. The cable works for read. The software seems to work
> for you in a very similar configuration. My MacBook is 2.9 GHz vice your
> Air  looks to be 1.7 GHz - there wouldn't be any clock-counting timeouts
> in this
> software, would there?.
>
> Is there anything reasonable I can do to troubleshoot this?
>
> When Chirp decides it's done after half a second, are there any logs
> to look at, or any way to get visibility into what it thinks it's doing?
>
> I'd suspect the cable, but it works for read, and I'm reluctant to
> spend the money and wait time to get another without some confidence
> that that's the problem, and it isn't feeling that way to me so far.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> -dan
>
> On Sep 22, 2012, at 12:12 PM, "Jay Moran WC3K - jay+CHIRP at tp.org"
> <+chirp+cordless+6937ac44de.jay+CHIRP#tp.org at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Jay Moran, WC3K <jay+CHIRP at tp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://xbsd.nl/2011/07/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html
> >
> > I will do my best to test it on 10.8.2 sometime today or tomorrow as I
> need to fix my wife's VX-7R with correct power levels since they are
> totally messed up from a bug.
> >
> > Okay, tested with both my wife's Yaesu VX-7R with a counterfit prolific
> USB cable from KaWaMall, and my own Wouxun KG-UV3d with a counterfit
> Prolific Chip USB cable from some other reseller on eBay. Both work great
> with the driver above with MacOSX 10.8.2 on my June 2012 MacBook Air 11".
> >
> > I downloaded it again and followed the installation steps. I used "sudo"
> at the start of every line/step they outline on that webpage, even though
> it didn't say to, better safe than sorry. The port shows up for me as:
> /dev/cu.PL2303-00002014.
> >
> > Good luck, hope that works for you.
> >
> > Jay
>
>
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