Agreed. I am not happy with Yaesu for that reason. To be honest, as I pointed out to a testy Yaesu rep, if their radio is so badly designed that a user level program can brick the radio, then their radio is garbage. Seriously, coming from an IT and Computer background, if your product is so fragile, nobody should trust it. Needless to say they continue to insist their radio is solid, but can be destroyed by software.
I still own Yaesu radios, and I will buy them if they suit me, just ignore their marketing claims, they are not trustworthy. -----Original Message----- From: John K via Users <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 6:09 PM To: CHIRP users list <[email protected]> Cc: John K <[email protected]> Subject: [users] Re: Chirp with Yaesu radios 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.chirpmyradi > o.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] > o.com/ > -- --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]/ _______________________________________________ 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]/
