CHIRP

I am a programmer in my day job, though I am new to CHIRP and have only a passing familiarity with Python. However, I just recently bought an FT-2900, and I have decided to take a crack and making it work. Between my day job and family issues, I don't get much time for this, and I'll also have some learning curve issues, so I can't say much about a schedule right now. But I'm putting this note in here as an announcement that I'm getting started. If someone else finds this note and is tempted to look at this, please contact me, ag6qr at sonic dot net.

This issue appears to be a duplicate of issue #358.

Hello Richard et al. I too would like to work on a driver for the ft2900. I've set up a repository on github to give us a place to collaborate. Everyone is welcome to contribute.

https://github.com/imesmiller/yaesu-ft2900r-chirp

My apologies. I just found the developer section of this site. I don't want to divert people from what appears to be a very active and capable development site. I will post any progress I make on the boards here.

My apologies. I just found the developer section of this site. I don't want to divert people from what appears to be a very active and capable development site. I will post any progress I make on the boards here.

Good Afternoon,

I wanted to update this to let you know I have put this information in the Yaesu Yahoo Group to try and get some traction for support:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/yaesu-radios/conversations/messages/2826

I also have an FT-2900R and would love to see this take off.

73

~Kevin / KB3ZWI

The Yahoo group requires you to be a member to read the message. What information did you post?

This is what I put in the new "Topic"

"Good Evening All,

I posted this link in the FT-2900 Group as well but I figured it wouldn't hurt to post here as well to try and get some traction for this project. I myself don't have any programming experience but do have a FT-2900R and could perhaps Beta test the software / driver.

Please take a look at the link and Chirp page information below and help spread the word.

Thank you!

Chirp Project: http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/925

Driver: https://github.com/imesmiller/yaesu-ft2900r-chirp

Looks like somebody is starting a project to develop a driver to allow the CHIRP program to program the FT-2900R. I've personally used CHIRP on my Baofeng and absolutely love it.

I was hoping somebody within this group would have the ability to help get this project going.

73

KB3ZWI"

To Dan Smith,

I live in the Portland, OR area and in a couple of weeks I should be able to lend my FT-2900 to you or someother developer in the area. Please get in touch with me.

(I read the page 'Rules for loaning a Radio'. I am fine with all of that. I just would like to do a warm hand-off and save myself the expense of the courier, if possible).

thanks

Marino
KG7EMV

Nothing heard :(

Marino
KG7EMV

Any chance we can get this radio supported? I'm in the Portland area and can loan my ft-2900 if needed to get the support added.

Thanks,
Brian
N6ZZY

I have begun working on this. So far I've been able to download the memory image inside chirp and pick out the frequency and offset (easy to find because they are BCD). I started by copying the FT2800 implementation and started making modifications. Right now I'm trying to figure out where the offset from the beginning of the image to the first memory slot in the image is stored. Also, if I get a memory image, change just the frequency of a memory slot and re-download the image I see all sorts of changes in the memory image not just the frequency I changed. I'm not sure if the other changes are of any consequence.

Any help is appreciated. How is this ticket different than #358?

ha alguma atualização para suportar o ft2900R ?

I have produced a working FT-2900 driver, and plan to have it submitted to the Chirp code stream in the next week or two.