[chirp_users] Truth or Fiction

John Kemker
Sat May 25 11:26:21 PDT 2019


Check out Icom's line of digital radios.  They're supporting D-Star.

Only reason I bought the Yaesu is it was on sale and I figured I'd try it
out.  It's not a bad radio, just don't like the closed architecture.

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 8:42 AM Chuck Hast <kp4djt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>>>> >
>>>> > 245 Corum Hill Road
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