[chirp_users] Yaesu FT-7900 R/E question

Wed Mar 6 17:51:43 PST 2013

Duffy,

This is a fine program.  I never bad mouthed it in any way.  If I did not think it was great, I'd never would have asked for help getting to work for me.
Why do you think I did a "crapshot" to Dan?  All I did was ask for help and nothing more.  I think his and others work is great.  Did you by chance mix me up with another person?

Either way, I never meant to start a flame war.  I love CHIRP.  I just wanted to work with the FT-7900.

Dan, thank you very much for your input; and your efforts to make this CHIRP program.
I did try in windows 7 to get CHIRP to see and work with the 7900 by way of the 7800.  It came back with an error that it did not see header 0 so failed.
Then I tried it on Mac and it will not see the connected port at all to even try to hook up to the 7900.

I think I might be missing a driver in both the Mac and in Windows 7.

Phaeton, thank you for your advice as well  I will give that ftb-7900 a try if I can not get CHIRP to connect.
Please dont become upset at anyone over my question.  I am 100% new at this, and have zero idea on what and how to do this stuff.

Thank you all.

Mark

On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:35 PM, "Bill Gabbard" <wcgabbard1 at windstream.net> wrote:

> Ditto on this,
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amateur Radio WB8NUT
> To: Discussion of CHIRP
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Yaesu FT-7900 R/E question
> 
> Wow, first he says it is a fine program, then a crapshot. This was completely uncalled for Mark. Dan is volunteering and contributing his time, effort and money to build this application and offers it for FREE. READ FREE. He owes you nothing. No support, no help, nada. I'll bet you never even contributed to him to support his efforts.
> 
> The program works for me and thousands of other hams. 
> 
> Because it does not work for you, or does not support the radio you want it to, or whatever, you lash out at the guy?
> 
> Completely and utterly uncalled for. You owe Dan a public apology. 
> 
> I personally am glad this was posted for everyone to see. Now we all know what a jerk you are.
> 
> Dan, sorry about this uncalled for and completely unreasonable post. Please know that 99.999% of the other clear thinking hams are very grateful for your time and effort.
> 
> Best Regards to Dan,
> 
> Duffy
> 
>> <compose-unknown-contact.jpg>	Phaeton	March 6, 2013 8:04 PM
>> Shove it Dan you f**king prick. Take me off your list.
>> You've been NOTHING but a pain in my ass since I
>> joined and I speak the absolute truth when I say
>> support is NOT LIKEY to cross brands very often
>> because simply put, Chirp is a crapshot at best 
>> to use even with the listed radios. 
>> 
>> You're an absolute f**khead and I hope you have
>> a set of balls to let the message post to see what 
>> some people think of your Tyrant and holier than thow
>> attitude. 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my 15.4" MacBook Pro, i7 quad core 
>> 
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>> <postbox-contact.jpg>	Dan Smith	March 6, 2013 6:18 PM
>> 
>> This is NOT true. I have corrected you on this exact topic in the past:
>> 
>> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2013-February/003137.html
>> 
>> Please stop it.
>> 
>> Mark, the above archive link should answer your question.
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>> <compose-unknown-contact.jpg>	Phaeton	March 6, 2013 5:41 PM
>> The 7900 will not show in the list of radios in Chirp unless Chirp 
>> has been modified to use it. Nor is it likely the 7900 will operate 
>> with the 7800 that is supported by Chirp. I've not heard of radios
>> that work with Chirp while being undocumented to do so. I'm fairly
>> certain Chirp looks for the radio ID when trying to read from it and 
>> simply won't allow its use for your sake. 
>> 
>> I use for my FT8900 software from www.g4hfq.co.uk/ftb7900.htm and will work
>> flawlessly with your FT7900 R/E. It's called FTB7900. You can test it out, you 
>> just can't write ti the radio unless you pay I think $15.00 US, well worth it. 
>> Hope you have the right cable. USB on one in and Mini 6 pin DIN on the 
>> other like most Yaesu mobiles use. 
>> 
>> Good luck
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my 15.4" MacBook Pro, i7 quad core 
>> 
>> 
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>> <compose-unknown-contact.jpg>	Apple //GS	March 6, 2013 5:20 PM
>> This is a fine program, and it works perfectly with my BAOFENG UV5RA, but for the life of me I can not get CHIRP to see my Yaesu FT-7900 R/E.
>> I have tried to use BOTH Mac and Windows, and while there are many other Yaesu models, the 7900 does not show up on the list.  I see from some others here that they have brought it up.
>> 
>> Please help me, at least show me how to ask others how to get my computers to see my Yaesu.
>> 
>> Apple Macintosh
>> CHIRP 0.3.0
>> GTK 2.24.10   
>> PyGTK 2.22.0
>> Python 2.7.2
>> 
>> Thank you in advance
>> 
>> Mark Fernandez
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