[chirp_users] Truth or Fiction

Sid Hayn
Fri May 24 20:00:48 PDT 2019


I would wager that my driver sends the same everything as well. Honestly
never checked, never bought the RT systems software.

The cable voltage issue is a wild guess, which at least made more sense to
me than anything else.

On Fri, May 24, 2019, 22:54 Dan Clemmensen <danclemmensen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since your CHIRP driver almost certainly send exactly the same that the
> Yaesu software would send, It's likely that you woold have seen the same
> reslult if you had been using the Yaesu software. This is speculation on my
> part. A spike on a USB-to-serial cable is not very likely unless you
> somehow had a ground loop?
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:39 PM Sid Hayn <sidhayn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I helped write the Yaesu VX-3R driver
>>
>> https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/entry/chirp/drivers/vx3.py#L1
>>
>> About a year after that, (and using the radio a good bit) the radio
>> appeared to lose power while I was writing to it.  The battery was
>> tested and charged, still no love.  I sent it to Yaesu and the
>> replaced some minor part (*not* the flash) but sadly I don't have the
>> documentation on what anymore.  After they sent it back to me I didn't
>> use it as much (I had more radios by this point).  About a year ago I
>> started using it more heavily and 6 months ago the same thing happened
>> (with the writing and the dying).
>>
>> In no way do I "blame chirp".  In fact, I'd more likely blame a
>> problem with the cheap cable possibly having voltage spikes and the
>> radio not being designed to handle a small voltage spike over the
>> serial and shorting something out.  That said, twice my vx-3r has died
>> while writing to it from chirp.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
>>
>> PS> I don't sell anything, I don't work on radios for a living, and I
>> love chirp.  I don't believe there is any possible way someone could
>> suggest I'm biased aside from unlucky personal experience.
>>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:22 AM JOCK SOUTAR via chirp_users
>> <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Never bricked any of mine.
>> > Could it be the operator rather than the radio?
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Dennis Wage <
>> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>> > Chirp has bricked Yeasu radios?
>> >
>> > I know what I think. What's the real truth?
>> >
>> > Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)
>> >
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