Yaesu engages in FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, marketing. It's because they've entered into a marketing agreement with a for-profit company to produce software for modifying their radios. Therefore, a group of amateurs who have written open-source software that Yaesu can't make money off of, they'll make all sorts of claims about it "bricking" Yaesu radios. I've yet to meet a single person who has experienced it first-hand. Only people who know others who have supposedly had their radios bricked with Chirp.
I wouldn't worry about it at all. Of course, I no longer buy Yaesu for that, and other reasons. On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM howard--- via Users < [email protected]> wrote: > I have an FT817ND and an FTM7250DR, both of which are listed as supported > radios. However, I have seen a number of posts on the internet from Yaesu > stating that using Chirp with Yaesu radios may damage them. > On the 7250, Chirp uses the clone mode of the radio which, to my mind, is > a very safe way to go. I am not sure how it works with the 817. > I would like to use Chirp with both but I am, of course, worried by the > Yaesu statements. Are these statements still valid? Or have they been > invalidated by progress within Chirp? Or were they not valid in the first > instance but a reflection of some other issue? > Thanks for any information on this. > Howard, VK4BS > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/postorius/lists/users.lists.chirpmyradio.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] > To report this email as off-topic, please email > [email protected] > List archives: > https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ > -- --John E Kemker III _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/postorius/lists/users.lists.chirpmyradio.com To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] To report this email as off-topic, please email [email protected] List archives: https://lists.chirpmyradio.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/
