[chirp_users] Truth or Fiction

Ben Smith
Fri May 24 12:32:12 PDT 2019


I love chirp but there are some know bugs with yeasu radios. Doesn't mean
you shouldn't use it though.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1735

On Fri, May 24, 2019, 12:25 John Kemker <kemkerj3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just got off the phone with a national amateur radio vendor, asking if
> they had the cable for my FTM3200DR for sale.  I was told they have the
> cable with the RT-Systems ADMS software, but not the cable by itself.  I
> told the salesperson that I didn't need the software, that I had used CHIRP
> for years and he proceeded to tell me "You know, you're not supposed to use
> CHIRP with Yaesu radios...."  I cut him off before he got finished with his
> statement and told him that it was an old wives' tale and not true.
>
> That's the second time I've heard the same propaganda from that particular
> vendor's sales team.
>
> 73 de W5NNH
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:54 AM Peter J. McClosky <pmcclosky at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> While I have only programed 1 Yeasu (successful), I have programed over
>> 150 Baofengs and Wouxuns, all but 2 successfully on the first try. (I am
>> the unofficial "programer” for my club).
>>
>> I made a simi-brick out of 2 Baofengs.  It look a while, but I was
>> successful in restoring both of these to full use.
>>
>> I find that lack of understanding how to use Chirp leads to problems in
>> using it.
>>
>> (Also, and contrary to most rumors, I have never found a programming
>> cable that did not work.)
>>
>> Peter, N7IY
>>
>> P.S, Before anyone says anything, the way I program Baofengs, they will
>> not transmit outside of the amateur radio bands.
>> -----
>> Peter J. McClosky, N7IY
>> Eugene, Oregon
>> pmcclosky at earthlink.net
>> n7iy at arrl.net
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~pmcclosky/
>>
>> On May 22, 2019, at 4:07 AM, John Kemker <kemkerj3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeasu
>>
>>
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