Right about now, I'd either use another computer in the household or as I mentioned before, use a Ubuntu Live CD which was written for Mac then install CHIRP to it and try that Operating System.<div><br></div><div>It's not CHIRP, it 'might be the driver' but that's looking "not so much", on Linux I would guess it would be permissions and user groups, but I suspect you have a bad cable. Low budget shops usually don't have the automated testing facilities they need to make sure stuff works and still sell it at a low price. They probably spot test a batch, not each one.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd go to a friend's house with radio, cable and load CHIRP onto their computer. Certainly a family member has a computer or a friend?</div><div><br></div><div>I bet a buck on "bad cable".</div>
<div><br></div><div>73</div><div><br></div><div>DR<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:04 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net" target="_blank">chirp.cordless@xoxy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks, I did see your mention of VFO mode in your post yesterday,<br>
and I've been carefully putting the FT60 in VFO mode before trying<br>
to write. I do note that it doesn't seem to need that to clone from<br>
another FT60, and I think the idea is that's what it thinks it's doing ...<br>
<br>
But still, I've tried VFO mode. Not sure what other modes to try, but<br>
I may play around. Juju beads arranged carefully in a Yaesu logo ...<br>
<br>
I'd really like to know what Chirp thinks is happening.<br>
<br>
-dan<br>
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On Sep 22, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Guy Teague - <a href="mailto:accts@gtweb.org">accts@gtweb.org</a> <+chirp+cordless+1d49abe5b1.accts#<a href="mailto:gtweb.org@spamgourmet.com">gtweb.org@spamgourmet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> i'm just throwing this out there because you seem to be stuck, but i have one of the chinese uv5r radios and the other day i could not get chirp to write to it despite it having worked perfectly for the week previous. for some reason i changed it from channel/memory mode to vfo mode and it starting writing perfectly. i was so surprised i toggled it a couple of times and sure enough that was the key to a successful write. it would be amazing if the same applied to your japanese radio, but won't cost you anything to try changing some of the radio modes to see what happens.<br>
><br>
> good luck, /guy (73 de kg5vt)<br>
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