<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Hello,</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Having just recently picking up a second Alinco DR-235 mobile, I was hoping to be able to do programming by computer for more convenience. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With my first Alinco DR-235, I had always just used it for an AllStar node, along with on occasion a couple of 1.25m/220 repeaters. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Since I only used a few channels, I just always programmed by front panel. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, with this second Alinco DR-235 mobile, I I’m planning to use it in my vehicle and for while traveling, making it more convenient to program channels by computer since there will be many more channels.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">After researching to find where you obtain a programming cable, I ordered and received a Prolific cable from “<a href="http://bluemax49ers.com/"><span class="s2">BlueMax49ers.com</span></a>”. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had ordered other cables from this particular seller before such as a FTDI cable for my Yaesu FT3DR which I use for both programming and Wires-X. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I even prefer this cable over the OEM FTDI SCU-19 cable for Wires-X due to its longer length. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All the cables I had ordered from the seller have worked perfectly in the past.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">This particular cable for the DR-235 is being properly recognized and assigned a com port under all the OS’s I have tested it with: MacOS, Windows 10, Raspbian (RPi), and GNU/Linux (Slackware 15, x86_64). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The cable itself is working fine.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Both Chirp-Next and Chirp-Legacy are able to read the DR-235 without error under MacOS, Windows, Raspbian, and GNU/Linux. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, then attempting to write back to the DR-235, Chirp-Next immediately errors out with “Encoding with ‘hex’ codec failed. TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not ‘str’”. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chirp-Legacy, however, is more promising as it actually begins and writes back all the way until the display on the radio increments up to “LD FF00” and Chirp displays the error message “‘Serial’ object has no attribute to ‘_read’”. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chirp on all the OS’s listed previously display these same errors and have the same behavior. </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">It seems to me this is likely something with the .python driver for this particular radio as the cable itself is working(?). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I wish I knew more about Python coding as my speculation is that this error is something right st the conclusion of writing data to the radio and that a fix might be relatively simple (if one knew Python) (?) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If I could just have one means of being able to write data to the radio, I’d be content, however only being able to read the configuration off the radio to save it isn’t too useful unless it can also be written ti the radio.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I’m just curious if anyone else has this particular mobile (Alinco DR-235), Prolific cable (<a href="http://bluemax49ers.com/"><span class="s2">BlueMax49ers.com</span></a>) that has been more successful using it? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unless I can get it woking to write successfully to the radio, my likely course will be to rerun this particular cable and order the DR-235 (CPS+cable) package on RT Systems. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unfortunately, the RT Systems CPS for this radio requires using their properiatary cable specifically for the Alinco DR-235 and the cable i have now will not work with it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Thank you very much and have a great day!</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">-Jerry</span></p></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone Pro Max</div></body></html>