[chirp_users] Yaesu FT-5D

Sun Dec 19 12:25:04 PST 2021

Actually,digital radios ARE supported by CHIRP. Been using CHIRP for the
past 6.5 years with my FT-1D. If you look at the wiki page
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home the FT-2D and FT-3D
are also listed among others.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 15:22 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> No progress can be made until a volunteer has offered to loan a radio.
>
> That's the best answer that can be given.
>
> Also many radios, especially those that are not extremely popular take
> years if they even finally get supported at all.
>
> Ken N2VIP says the coding process is much shorter than "years", and
> that is true, but getting someone to take the development of code sometimes
> takes years, but after someone volunteers, it usually goes quite quickly.
>
>
> I have no problem with it taking years, this is a volunteer project, I and
> several others proposed the Wouxun KG-UV8E in 2016, and we were overjoyed
> when a developer took it and made it work with CHIRP, some of the delay was
> finding someone who had a loaner radio who would be able to ship the radio
> to the developer who was located in Cuba, USA still has an embargo with
> that island nation, so a volunteer from Canada actually arranged for the
> radio to be hand delivered in airplane luggage to the developer.  That's
> first class service.
>
> But things cannot move until a volunteer radio is offered.
>
> Also I just looked up the FT5DR and it seems to C4FM radio, and unless my
> memory is unreliable, digital radios as a class aren't supported by CHIRP.
>
> I hope someone of the developers can comment on that, I didn't realize it
> was a C4FM radio in the beginning.
>
> Regards,
>
> DR
> N1EA
>
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 2:18 PM Jeff K3JRZ <k3jrz.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think missed that part from the original issue. And, no, I have not
>> thought about volunteering my brand new radio for “months or years”, mostly
>> because *I’ve* been burned badly before by similar situations with people I
>> know or knew. I’m not saying the developers can’t be trusted, I’m sure they
>> can, but *I* do not trust others I do not know, due to *MY* *personal*
>> experiences. And those are my problems to deal with.
>>
>> I know it’s all volunteers and stuff. I’m part of several such ham radio
>> communities that are the same way. I was just asking if there’s been any
>> update (“Has any progress been made…”) since it’s been 3 months that have
>> passed.  Really I just wanted a simple answer of yes or no. But I’ll take
>> all of that as a “no”.
>>
>> Thank you for the reply.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 13:47 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> The issue you posted says "equipment loan not offered".
>>>
>>> Until someone either offers a loan to the development team, or someone
>>> buys and gives a radio to the development team, nothing can be done.
>>>
>>> Even when equipment is offered for loan, a developer has to be
>>> interested in the project to volunteer. This can take months or even years.
>>>
>>> I have a feeling that an offer to buy the radio for a developer would
>>> get them VERY interested in supporting development for this radio.
>>>
>>> Remember this is a totally community effort that is given away to users
>>> without charge.
>>>
>>> Have you thought about volunteering the loan of your radio?
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> David N1EA
>>> Just a CHIRP user
>>>
>>> =30=
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2021, 12:23 Jeff K3JRZ <k3jrz.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know it's been a while (over 3 months since the Yaesu FT-5D radio has
>>>> be released and just as long as the info/issue (#9365) about using CHIRP
>>>> with the FT-5D (https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9365) dated
>>>> 09/11/2021. I also do not see the radio listed on the CHIRP site. Since
>>>> then RT Systems and Yaesu both have applications to program the FT-5D. I've
>>>> used the Yaesu ADMS14 through my Win10 VM and in my honest opinion it's
>>>> complete garbage. It's the first Yaesu app that I've used to program a
>>>> radio. CHIRP is by far THE best that I've used, AND userit works on my Mac.
>>>>
>>>> Has any progress been made to have CHIRP be able to program the FT-5D?
>>>> Even if it's just writing to a micro SD card that could be read by the
>>>> radio it would be great.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & 73.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>> K3JRZ
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