On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:48:50 -0500, Fred McKenzie wrote:

In article ,
wa7kgx wrote:

CHIRP does not mention the FT-991 in their list of supported rigs.

I have written the odd program to do things with ICOM radios over the
years but have not done anything with Yaesy CAT codes. I do have an
FT-817nd which documents CAAT codes in the user manual.

I also have the FT-817nd, and downloaded manuals for the FT-857 and 897.
For all three, there is a procedure for holding down buttons to enter
the Clone mode. Clone mode is how CHIRP downloads and uploads data to
the radios. Choosing FT-897 in CHIRP might download something from the
FT-991, but it may not be the right format. But to try it, you would
need to find how to put the FT-991 into Clone mode.

I tried various combinations of buttons on the FT-991 when switching on
power, but have not found the Clone combination yet.

Holding in both the A=B and A/B buttons produces "Version Information"
for Main, DSP, TFT and C4FM. The screen lasts for 5 or 10 seconds and
goes back to the regular screen.

Holding in RCL/STO lights all the lights, but the radio does not respond
as far as I can tell.

Holding in CS gives a white screen. Then pressing Menu-Setup toggles
the screen between white and black.

I think I will take a list of questions for the Yaesu booth at the
Orlando Hamfest in a couple of weeks!

73,
Fred K4DII

The FT-991 CAT codes are similar to those of the FT-950.
Close but no cigar. For instance, the FT-991 FA command resuires an
extra digit needed to express frequencies above 99 MHz.

I suspect clone commands are not in the 991's future.
It should be possible tostore and retrieve the memory locations
individually. Shouldn't take too long as there are only a hundred or so.

In article ,
wa7kgx wrote:

The FT-991 CAT codes are similar to those of the FT-950.
Close but no cigar. For instance, the FT-991 FA command resuires an
extra digit needed to express frequencies above 99 MHz.

I suspect clone commands are not in the 991's future.
It should be possible tostore and retrieve the memory locations
individually. Shouldn't take too long as there are only a hundred or so.

I spoke to RT Systems at the Orlando Hamfest a couple weeks ago, before
the CAT codes were published. They had already begun to study the
FT-991, and had figured out some of the codes. They thought programming
may be possible, but they did not think they could access or enter
custom channel names.

I understand Yaesu does not provide much software for their radios, but
depends on other companies. You would think that would be enough
incentive for them to include any CAT or Clone commands needed.

I also talked to Yaesu at the Hamfest, and told them of my problems with
the FT-991. The are apparently working hard to fix them, and mentioned
that they knew of some that were not on my list!

At least a couple of the problems I noticed were fixed by the recent
firmware update, and radio operation seems to be a little more stable
than before.

Fred