<p dir="ltr">As far as I know, no additional equipment is required, at least with the USB cable. I don't think one is needed with the RS232, either, but I haven't used one. </p>
<p dir="ltr">--Aubrey</p>
<p dir="ltr">[Sent from my phone... please excuse any typos.]</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2013 7:00 PM, "Randy Elliott" <<a href="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com">ve3jpu@me.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Aubrey</div><div>So this cable has level converter built into it, or is a level converter not needed.<br><br><div>Randy </div><div><a href="mailto:VE3JPU@me.com" target="_blank">VE3JPU@me.com</a></div>
<br></div><div><br>On Nov 21, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Aubrey Turner <<a href="mailto:aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
I presume you are referring to the FT-8800R? <br>
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<a href="http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=106&encProdID=FD01F8F398F2B94A9C9F4299F3D18732&DivisionID=65&isArchived=0" target="_blank">http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=106&encProdID=FD01F8F398F2B94A9C9F4299F3D18732&DivisionID=65&isArchived=0</a><br>
<br>
If you are wanting to use CHIRP with this radio, all you need is the
right cable. No need to build anything unless you are into
tinkering with electronics, as there are plenty of them on the
market.<br>
<br>
If you are lucky enough to still have an RS-232 port, here's a
serial version:<br>
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<a href="http://www.valley-ent.com/catalog/yaesu-programming-cable-ft7800-ft8800-ft8900-p-218.html" target="_blank">http://www.valley-ent.com/catalog/yaesu-programming-cable-ft7800-ft8800-ft8900-p-218.html</a><br>
<br>
If all you have is USB, here's one that should work quite well:<br>
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<a href="http://www.valley-ent.com/catalog/yaesu-ftdi-programming-cable-ft7800-ft8800-feet-p-561.html" target="_blank">http://www.valley-ent.com/catalog/yaesu-ftdi-programming-cable-ft7800-ft8800-feet-p-561.html</a><br>
<br>
Note that the above cables are a little pricey, and you can find
better prices on eBay. But I picked this vendor in particular
because they use the FTDI chipset in their USB cables, which usually
just works for people as soon as the driver is installed. The cheap
cables on eBay often use cloned chips that are based on Prolific
chips, and Prolific has booby-trapped the later versions of the
driver to fail with these cloned chips, so you have to jump through
some hoops to get them to work (i.e. load older drivers and disable
automatic driver updates). At least this is the case with Windows
and USB. This isn't an issue with the RS-232 version (as there is
no need for a USB-to-serial chip). It's also not an issue with USB
on with Mac or Linux.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 11/21/2013 03:43 PM, Randy Elliott
wrote:<br>
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<pre>Greetings to the group
Just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction to an interface I can build to communicate chirp with a Yaesu 8800 mobile radio.
Randy Elliott
Email: <a href="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com" target="_blank">ve3jpu@me.com</a>
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