You might try a different computer and/or operating system. I seem to remember having trouble with the Icom live on linux, but not on windows. Been a long time ago, so can't remember details for sure, could have been the other way around.
On 6/16/23 18:45, Joe Martine wrote: > Today I received a cable for my Kenwood TH-F6A and find it has the > same problem as the Icom. These two are the only "live mode" radios > I've tried, perhaps my issue is more generally with live mode? > > The TH-F6A cable is a USB version, branded Maxton Data. When > connecting to the radio most memory channels are red, a few actually > show up correctly. This time I tried adding some data to an empty > memory that was successfully read. Surprisingly, this does *usually* > work. A couple of times the frequency would show up in the radio, but > when I added an offset or tone the software seemed to indicate it was > sent (green highlight then back to white) but the radio never showed > the change. On one entry I made another change (change step size or > something) and BOTH changes finally showed up on the radio. > > While Chirp was trying to read the memories the console showed many > repeats of "Unexpected result returned from radio" and "Not sure what > to do with this:" followed by either a '0' or a line of gibberish. > > Anyone have thoughts or suggestions to try? > > Thanks, > Joe > > > >> >> I have recently gotten back to playing with my radios after a few >> years (too many hobbies!) and was pleased to find Chirp can work with >> all of them. At this point I've successfully read and reprogrammed >> several radios but my IC-92AD is not cooperating. >> >> I have the Icom programming cable and have tried reading its memory >> on Mac, Win and Linux with roughly the same result. Chirp reads >> data, but with lots of errors. Mac/Linux seem most successful, with >> just a few memory channels marked in red, Windows fails on almost >> all. But even the channels that do get read aren't quite right. >> There may be duplicated channel numbers, one blank the other with a >> frequency in it. The channel numbers may be out of order. Or some >> have incorrect data. >> >> A screenshot of one read attempt (this morning): >> http://www.n5usr.net/images/230615_chirp/92ADLive_230615.png >> >> Note for memories 21-27, that block is actually all FRS frequencies. >> The ham repeater entries are valid entries but they are NOT in memory >> locations 21 / 23 / 25 / 27. >> >> I also made a log file for one run (not this morning's, but similar >> results): >> http://www.n5usr.net/images/230615_chirp/IC92AD.log >> >> Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps a setting in the radio that >> needs to be changed? I've looked through the options and nothing >> strikes me as likely but you never know... >> >> Chirp version is: CHIRP next-20230608 on all three platforms. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Paul AC0HY at [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] > To report this email as off-topic, please email > [email protected] > Searchable archive: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] -- /************************************************** * Amateur Radio Station AC0HY * * W. Paul Mills SN807 * * Assistant EC Alpha-1 ARES Shawnee/Wabaunsee, KS * * President Kaw Valley Amateur Radio Club * **************************************************/ _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list [email protected] http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to [email protected] at [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] To report this email as off-topic, please email [email protected] Searchable archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
