[chirp_users] Fw: [blind-hams] Anybody using chirp software?

Fri Mar 25 19:47:18 PDT 2022

At least for the Yaesu FT-70, I don't have other Yaesu digital radios, Chirp will program frequencies, repeater shift etc. needed for the analogue FM mode but will not let you select digital as a mode or allow the setting of callsigns, etc required tor Fusion/Wires-X use.

> On 25/03/2022 22:33 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Nigel,
> 
> I'm confused - which is probably the way I came out at birth, but
> isn't the Yaesu Fusion a digital mode?
> 
> Can CHIRP work with at least the non-digital channels of transceivers
> like YAESU FT1DR?  That's a Fusion radio but I don't see it listed on
> https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Supported_Radios
> 
> Other Yaesu Fusion radios are:
> 
> FT1DR
> FT2DR
> FT3DR
> FT5DR
> FT-70DR
> FTM-100DR
> FTM-300DR
> FTM-400DR
> FTM-3200DR
> FTM-3207DR
> FTM-7250DR
> FT-991
> 
> I see in supported radios, that these are listed:
> 
> FTM-3100 (use FTM-3200D selection)
> FTM-3200D
> 
> I don't know if FTM-3200D is different than FTM-3200DR
> 
> Could you help unconfuse me, I don't know much about Yaesu digital radios.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 73
> 
> David N1EA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 6:12 PM Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
> <nigel at ngunn.net> wrote:
> >
> > No. Chirp works fine with Yaesu radios. Never heard of a genuine case of Chirp bricking a radio.
> >
> > On 25/03/2022 17:46 K0LNY_Glenn <glenn at ervin.email> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is this correct?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Anthony R Paolucci Jr
> > To: K0LNY_Glenn
> > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 4:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [blind-hams] Anybody using chirp software?
> >
> > Fyi for those who use chirp 2 program your yaesu fusion radios chirp software tends 2 turn your radios into useless bricks after programming them score John Kruk Narketing/sales Manager at Yaesu USA. He reccomend either using the programming software that Yaesu has if the programming software is available for the make/model of the yaesu radio listed on the files tab for the radio. If theres no programming software listed under your radio model then you are forced to buy the programming cable & software from rt systems. Be advised if chirp bricks your yaesu radio you will be forced to ship your radio to yaesu usa in California for repairs. Also be advised that once chirp bricks your radio your radio warranty will be voided and you will be responsible for paying all shipping costs, parts & labor to restore your radio back to factory settings.
> > 73
> > Anthony R Paolucci Jr KG5JPU
> > (817)707-6008
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 10:29 Glenn / Lenny <glenn at ervin.email> wrote:
> >
> > I use chirp in Linux, with the screenreader Orca.
> > When you are in the Linux graphic user interface, it is more like old
> > windows than new windows is.
> > You will have menus like old windows, and virtually all the keyboard
> > commands in Linux are like that of windows shortcuts.
> > Orca is more like using NVDA than like using Jaws.
> > And Chirp is fully accessible in Linux.
> > You can use Linux on a thumb drive without installing it.
> > I have Linux installed in a virtual machine on this computer, and I have it
> > installed side by side windows on another, and I have it on multiple USB
> > drives around here.
> > You can install the live version to a backup drive and the backed up files
> > will still be there, but you can boot to that drive if you want.
> > But with all that, it is possible to use Chirp in windows, but you have to
> > do a lot of routing Jaws to PC, and then finding the selection, and then
> > routing PC to Jaws.
> > And if you aren't familiar already with the menu options in Chirp, this
> > would be challenging, but I have used it in Windows.
> > Another problem with Chirp in windows, and sighted people have this problem
> > too, is that Windows has difficulty using the right drivers, where Linux
> > doesn't, and people just don't have driver issues in Chirp when it comes to
> > recognizing the cable they are connecting between the computer and radio.
> > Finally, people should not be afraid of learning Linux, I think windows 10
> > has a steeper learning curve from windows 7, than using Linux, that is the
> > Linux desktop environment, when people use terminal commands, that is more
> > learning, that is like using windows command window, and I think most
> > windows users can't use that much either.
> >
> > HTH.
> > Glenn
> >
> >
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