[chirp_users] No Download from Kenwood TM-D700a

[mark at marwalk.com]

Hi, Dan. Glad I mentioned the legacy suggestion. I re-installed the latest
Chirp-next and it's working great; thank you! I've tried a Repeater Book
lookup for my area and copied/pasted a local repeater into my radio, and the
results were near instant. I now have some work to do to get all the other
repeaters that I use on my travels into the radio's memory. As you've
mentioned that you as well are using this radio and programming it with
Chirp, I'm making note to report any bugs that I think I see. I'd started
and used to run a local LUG here in Frederick, and I fully appreciate the
open source ethos and all the effort that goes into it. Rest assured that
you are appreciated!

Thanks,
 Mark

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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No Download from Kenwood TM-D700a

> Dan, you identified the problem for me. I had the radio in TNC PKT 
> mode, looked up in the manual how to take it out of that mode and 
> Chirp promptly populated. It did click my Flex PTT, but as you said, 
> that was momentary with no ill effect. I was already using the cable I 
> got from BlueMax49ers made for the TM-D700 so I was fairly sure it was 
> terminated properly for that radio. I'd even talked by phone with Mark 
> there, who told me about having to use the legacy Chirp for this radio 
> and that's what's working for me.

Okay, very glad you got it working, and glad your cable is intended for the
D700 itself. That makes things easier.

I definitely disagree about the recommendation for legacy though - "next"
has a ton of fixes for this driver, among others. It might have other bugs,
but I'll gladly fix them if you report them as I own this radio and want it
to work. Legacy will get no further fixes *and* has known bugs that can
cause real problems, so I do not recommend it for anything other than the
most dire of circumstances at this point.

--Dan
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