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

[Chuck Hast]

This is pure BS and FUD from Yaesu. They have propagated
this now for years. The issue from what I understand is improper
memory protection, you can brick the radios with their software
too.

FYI.
I refuse to purchase Yaesu radios, there are many reasons
but the big one is they are all proprietary, they want to run
a walled garden in ham radio, Their digital radios are a very
good example of this. The protocol is proprietary, just try to
put it in your radio, you will have Yaesu bottom feeder critters
a knocking on your door.

If their programming software was so good why do so many
prefer Chirp (this is not a critique of Chirp and the developers,
Chirp is like a Swiss Army knife) to program their radios. And
also they send you off to Windows based crap that is RT
Systems... Again proprietary...

Sorry folks, but this is amateur radio and I do not believe
proprietary has a place in our hobby.

Best Regards.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:29 PM Geordon VanTassle <gvantass at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, CHIRP is specifically for analogue programming.  Nothing digital,
> that’s where the manufacturer software comes into play.
> —
> With greatest regards,
> Geordon Shōshin 正心 VanTassle
>
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2022, at 10:04 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> That makes it crystal clear.
>
> Glenn, K0LNY and the rest of us now have a clear answer. CHIRP cannot read
> or write to the digital channels!
>
> Fabulous!
>
> 73
>
> David
> N1EA
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 10:47 PM Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel at ngunn.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 -----
>>
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Chuck -- KP4DJT
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