CHIRP

I, too, am very anxious to have CHIRP work with the Alinco DJ-V5. I can offer one for loan although it may take a while for me to get it to you - I'm currently on long term assignment in Canada. How do I change the 'loan offer' tag? Or do you do that?
Where do I send it and how long is it likely to be away?
Thanks for all that you do!!
Jim McLellan
K5BAA/VE1

I spent sometime with Jim and access to his radio, unfortunately we were unable to get a proper ACK for either ident or the traditional AL commands. Here is a trace of the serial port while chirp is attempting to communicate with the device. (I constructed a basic module based on the existing alnico devices for test)

618 01:31:58.227    0.01517037  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_CREATE                           COM5    SUCCESS Port Opened 
619 01:31:58.242    0.00001435  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_QUEUE_SIZE             COM5    SUCCESS InSize: 4096, OutSize: 4096 
622 01:31:58.242    0.00439599  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE              COM5    SUCCESS Baud Rate: 9600 
623 01:31:58.247    0.00019518  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_RTS                    COM5    SUCCESS     
624 01:31:58.247    0.00022005  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR                    COM5    SUCCESS     
625 01:31:58.247    0.00011003  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL           COM5    SUCCESS StopBits: 1, Parity: No, DataBits: 8    
626 01:31:58.247    0.00002488  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_CHARS                  COM5    SUCCESS EofChar: 0x0, ErrorChar: 0x0, BreakChar: 0x0, EventChar: 0x0, XonChar: 0x11, XoffChar: 0x13 
627 01:31:58.247    0.00000255  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_HANDFLOW               COM5    SUCCESS ControlHandShake: 0x1, FlowReplace: 0x40, XonLimit: 2048, XoffLimit: 512    
628 01:31:58.247    0.00001690  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_PURGE                      COM5    SUCCESS Purge: TXABORT RXABORT TXCLEAR RXCLEAR  
629 01:31:58.247    0.00000606  chirpw.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_PURGE                      COM5    SUCCESS Purge: RXABORT RXCLEAR  
630 01:31:58.248    0.00024525  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_WRITE                            COM5    SUCCESS Length: 6, Data: DJV5.. 
631 01:31:58.249    0.00619693  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    SUCCESS Length: 6, Data: DJV5.. 
632 01:31:58.330    0.24937229  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    TIMEOUT Length: 0, Data:    
633 01:31:59.580    0.00022197  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_WRITE                            COM5    SUCCESS Length: 6, Data: DJV5.. 
634 01:31:59.580    0.00628718  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    SUCCESS Length: 6, Data: DJV5.. 
635 01:31:59.586    0.25005860  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    TIMEOUT Length: 0, Data:    
636 01:32:00.837    0.00026470  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_WRITE                            COM5    SUCCESS Length: 6, Data: DJV5.. 
637 01:32:00.837    0.00628718  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    SUCCESS Length: 6, Data: DJV5.. 
638 01:32:00.843    0.24905528  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    TIMEOUT Length: 0, Data:    
639 01:32:02.093    0.00023345  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_WRITE                            COM5    SUCCESS Length: 11, Data: AL~F0000R..   
640 01:32:02.093    0.01152704  chirpw.exe  IRP_MJ_READ                             COM5    SUCCESS Length: 11, Data: AL~F0000R..   

According to the manufacturer the device supports cloning between two devices, therefore it may be possible to emulate the slave device, however with no further data we were not able to proceed.

If anybody out there has any insight as to the protocol for this device, it would be useful.

Please check: http://fregon45.tripod.com/alinco.htm
and maybe e-mailing fregon45@netzero.net might give even more information.

The quest continues ... to no avail.

Since my original post and efforts with Arvanitis I have located my ancient copy of the RT Systems software. It requires a password which is long lost although I know that I bought the software legitimately years ago. RT Systems was unable/unwilling to give any help - all questions were met with a "we no longer support that radio" stonewall.

So now I have my beloved radio, a programming cable and the software without password. I'm still no further than before. I wonder if reverse engineering the software is a possibility.

BTW: I have also tried emailing anybody that I could find on various forums who indicated that they had the radio and software and have never received a reply from anyone.

Jim McLellan
K5BAA/VE1

Further info -
I tried to send an email to +fregon45@netzero.net+ asking for help and it bounced. That webpage is pretty old and it appears that email address is no longer valid.
Jim

There is a functional DOS program called djall that can be downloaded at: http://hamradio.online.ru/ftp/djall.exe
Possibly this will be of help to someone with greater programming skills than me.