[chirp_users] Truth or Fiction

[Chuck Hast]

All of the above just goes to confirm why I will NOT buy Yaesu. They sold
boat load of C4FM repeaters most
of which are doing analog because they are not connected to the net. Yes
you can use a MMDVM and build
your own, but go buy a non-yeasu radio that supports their closed protocol.

I purchased a D-Star handheld from HRO  in Portland back in 2008, it was
years before I got to use it on D-Star
and it is an open protocol but no manufacturer wanted to support it. Even
now only Kenwood is producing radios
that do D-Star.

I have had to deal with RT-Systems and I did not care for their "our way or
the highway " attitude.

In amateur radio we are SUPPOSED to open things up change them use other
bits and pieces on them, those
who demand a walled garden should not get our money.  Yaesu is outstanding
in that way. Indeed I have always
associated them with box operators, not nitty gritty hams who want to dig
into the technical side of things.

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:03 PM Sid Hayn <sidhayn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Celestial!!!
Chuck -- KP4DJT
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