I have an ICom ID-880H in my car. The guy I bought it off of had a program in it that had some of the banks programmed with groups of repeaters and public service frequencies. It was fairly well organized having groups for the Triad, Raleigh, and Charlotte, as well as NC and VA D-Star groups and command channels.
The problem was that some of it was a little out of date and it is very difficult to program that radio through the keypad. ICom does offer the software to clone and program the radio, but it is Windows only and I don't have a working copy of Windows on any of my PCs anymore. So I used Chirp.
It was able to successfully download from the radio, I was able to modify the repeater settings, and upload it back to the radio. Chirp had categories for this radio and everything. All seemed well. Until this morning when I turned the radio on and it came up and said "Cleared". ARGH!
Has anyone had this happen before?
I did save the configuration from Chirp so I can try to clone it again. Worse case is that I should be able to manually program the stuff back into the radio by recreating it in the ICom tool. I did find a link to getting it to run under Wine (using Ubuntu: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1583350 ) which pretty much amounts to linking the /dev/ttyUSBx to a folder under the .wine configuration directory and making a few "registry" entries. This will enable wine to see the device as a comm port and run the program.
The problem was that some of it was a little out of date and it is very difficult to program that radio through the keypad. ICom does offer the software to clone and program the radio, but it is Windows only and I don't have a working copy of Windows on any of my PCs anymore. So I used Chirp.
It was able to successfully download from the radio, I was able to modify the repeater settings, and upload it back to the radio. Chirp had categories for this radio and everything. All seemed well. Until this morning when I turned the radio on and it came up and said "Cleared". ARGH!
Has anyone had this happen before?
I did save the configuration from Chirp so I can try to clone it again. Worse case is that I should be able to manually program the stuff back into the radio by recreating it in the ICom tool. I did find a link to getting it to run under Wine (using Ubuntu: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1583350 ) which pretty much amounts to linking the /dev/ttyUSBx to a folder under the .wine configuration directory and making a few "registry" entries. This will enable wine to see the device as a comm port and run the program.