[chirp_users] Truth or Fiction

Chuck Hast
Sat May 25 21:34:40 PDT 2019


Yes, I should have said Icom D-Star....
I have an ID -5100 in the vehicle too, but not much D-Star here in central
OK. Building a MMDVM repeater
based on a Mastr III, makes a great digital box. Since it has the data
ports on it for EDACS use. First I will
turn on DMR then D-Star.

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 1:29 PM John Kemker <kemkerj3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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