<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">With no cable plugged in can you start the clone mode? My FT8900 will <br>and will sit in RX waiting for data forever. Now if you go to TX it will time <br>out because there is no cable but at least I've established that the radio<br>is working. I don't know gives you instruction when to press for TX but the<br>software has to be ready to RX or TX on the radio will time out. RX on the<br>radio is more lenient. And Chirp might walk you through when to push what<br>I don't know haven't used it yet. Usually though with radios that require<br>timing to RX data from the radio the software should prompt you when to <br>do what. <br><br>Your FT7900 clone mode is basically the same as my FT8900. Turn the <br>radio on while holding the MHZ key. Rotate the channel encoder to <br>item 7. Press SET again, the display blacks out then will come
back saying<br>CLONE. Then you can press VM or LOW and the radio will start to TX or RX. <br><br>First couple times I forgot to press SET again after selection #7. Give that <br>a try.<br><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dave Cavanaugh <cavanadd@frontier.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:15 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [chirp_users] Programming Yaesu FT7900<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I am having trouble programming my radio via the programming cable.<br><br>I can get the
radio into Clone mode by pressing the MHz PRI button on <br>startup. However, it won't go into TX or RX by pushing the LOW/ACC or <br>V/M MW button as described in the "cloning" section of the manual.<br><br>When I start Chirp and go to "download from radio" it gives me the box <br>with Port com 3, radio Yaesu and Model FT-7800. When I try to download <br>the profile from the radio I get the error message<br>"failed to communicate with the radio: Failed to read header (0).<br><br>Now what?<br><br>Thanks<br>Dave KG7HBQ<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div>
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