[chirp_users] Yaesu vx-170

[Jim Unroe]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 8:11 PM Joseph E. Rouillier III
<joseph.rouillier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> All
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> Thank you for taking your time to look at this issue.  I have a Yaesu VX-170 that I came across.   Once I got it home I did a reset on the radio to bring it back to factory defaults.   Next I tried reading the radio from Chirp, (Download from Radio).   That fails no matter what I try it will not download the file from the radio.
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> The radio almost immediately shows error after pressing push to talk seeing TX.  and then in chirp I see Failed to communicate with radio: Failed to read header (0)
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> Attached is the Debug.
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> Also just for testing I got a VX-170 file from a friend and tried to download it to the radio also had errors.   As soon as I get the radio into RX Chip shows a error indicating Radio did not ack block at 0 the radio screen never shows error it continues to show RX.
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> See attached Debug.log file.
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> Note I tested the cable to see if it was the problem borrowed a friends cable as well, both cables same issue, and both cables successfully program an FT-60 and my friend is able to read/write his VX-170 with his cable and my cable and he sees the same errors as I do when trying my radio.
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> I tested the jack with a speaker mic to make sure the jack seems to be working correctly, speaker mic work fine can RX and TX.
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> Finally in desperation I removed the battery and opened the little cover under the battery and confirmed the radio was modded by someone removing the 1 0 ohm resistor, and it looks like it only had 1 resistor as the 2nd upper one looks to clean as if it was never there from the factors.   I believe the MOD is Expanded RX or TX I do not recall as I've never needed to perform the mod was aware of it from researching the radio itself.
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> Thanks for any assistance.  Attaced is the debug file that should contain both Download and Upload from Radio failures.

Not that I can help with this issue, but I don't see an attached debug.log file.

Jim KC9HI