Chirp erased my radio

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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The problem was that some of it was a little out of date and it is very difficult to program that radio through the keypad.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.
 
I have had that happen. Mine was caused from a different daily build. I did a copy and paste into a new form to download. Took a bit but worked perfectly.
 
I have had that happen. Mine was caused from a different daily build. I did a copy and paste into a new form to download. Took a bit but worked perfectly.
Good point and thank you for the suggestion. This did remind me of something. I am using Arch Linux which has a bit of a unique build system for the non mainstream applications called AUR. In short, you GIT clone a package that downloads source code from the Chirp-Daily website verifies the SHA1sum and then has the make file parameters to compile the application. I ran into the problem that the newest version of Chirp I could find and a matching SHA sum for was a couple of weeks old. I might be able to try a different version. This sort of thing can be a problem with 'unstable' software but on the flip side, the Ubuntu Package version of Chirp (on my work PC) was very outdated and wouldn't program the Baofeng radio I had and I had to go to the Chirp-Daily as a custom install.
 
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As a follow up to this, I tried Chirp again and saw the radio say CL ERR or clone error at the end of the process. A reboot then erases it.

I was able to successfully clone the device using the ICom software running under wine, but I had to do some tricks to map the /dev/ttyUSB0 to the Windows comm 5 port.
 
What city do you live in? (Sorry I dont get on the forum much anymore since a job change in November so I'm way behind on reading)

There are quite a few guys in Greensboro with a really nice file built for the 880 using the Icom software. I could probably email you the file or put you in touch with one of them.

I've owned two 880's but I always used the RT Systems software on Windows.
 
What city do you live in? (Sorry I dont get on the forum much anymore since a job change in November so I'm way behind on reading)
Thank you for the offer. I'm in high point by the way. I ended up getting a replacement file for the ICom software from AJ4TF and running the Icom utility under Wine.
 
That is crazy Matt. Never had any issues with the program.

Have not touched any radios in weeks. So busy during the day and so freaking hot that when I get home I just wanna potato...
 
That is crazy Matt. Never had any issues with the program.

Have not touched any radios in weeks. So busy during the day and so freaking hot that when I get home I just wanna potato...
It is crazy. The only thing that I can think of is that perhaps there is an incompatibility with the way the Icom stores the repeaters in banks with name labels? I still need to hook it back up and reset some of the D-Star features as the radio currently thinks its AJ4TF still (oops - I forgot and keyed up a D-Star repeater). I also need to get out there and mount the external speaker I bought as the internal one died in that radio.

I've been planning my schedule around being home on Thursday nights as my night to get on the radio, but I haven't been on much recently either. For some reason, for the last couple of weeks, I've been waking up at 3am like clockwork. I've been going back to sleep but I've been contemplating just getting up and seeing if I can take advantage of the night time propagation effects.
 
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