[chirp_users] Problems with Yaesu -- FT60 and FT-8800

Basil Copeland
Thu Jan 23 15:43:56 PST 2014


It may be too late for that?  I just installed the "stable" version, and it
worked.  So this is an issue with the daily build version I was using, or
so it would seem.

Basil


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, IZ3GME Marco <iz3gme.marco at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Basil
> I think there can be some useful info in the log, can you please reproduce
> the problem and send it?
> Here is how to collect debug log
>
> http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_To_Report_Issues#Getting-your-debug-log
>
> tnx
> 73 de IZ3GME Marco
>
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:31:20 -0600
> Basil Copeland <blcjr2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the prompt reply.  At least with respect to the FT-60,
> Commander
> > was not open; at that point, it had not even been installed.  IAC, I just
> > went through the whole process again with the FT-60.  Same error.
> >
> > Seems curious to me that this would happen with two different cables
> > connected to two different radios.  I really do not see how it could be a
> > cable issue.  Driver issue, perhaps.  That would be the only common
> > denominator.  The driver is FTDI 2.8.30.0, dated 7/12/13, and installed
> > using COM4, as COM1/3 is reported "in use" (that would be for a Prolific
> > driver/USB cable used with the UV-5R).
> >
> > Basil
> > KE5GAE
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Basil Copeland <blcjr2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > windows, with a final error message saying something about being
> unable
> > > to
> > > > "read echo" and then "bad cable?"
> > >
> > > This error means that Chirp tried to send something out over the
> > > serial port and didn't get a response. With Yaesu cables, everything
> > > sent should echo back to the serial port, because the tx and rx lines
> > > are connected together. The cause of this is usually, as reported, a
> > > faulty cable or driver. My only other idea is that another program may
> > > have been using the serial port when Chirp tried to access it. Was
> > > Commander still open?
> > >
> > > Tom KD7LXL
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