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I have a very nice H-V-U station, but I recently purchased a cheap Chinese QYT model KT7900D, just to get on a local 220MHz club repeater. The QYT model shows up on the Chirp webpage as being supported. However, I have not be willing to change my operating system to Win 10 or 11, and am still running a very stable and familiar Win7Pro.

My question is: if I download the legacy version of Chirp for Win7, will the more recent KT7900D driver (is it for Win 10 or 11 only), work with Win7? I obviously don't want to"brick" the QYT radio.

Or to put it another way, are the later drivers typically back compatible with the legacy software?

Your attention is appreciated.
Ray, W4BYG (for over 70 years)

Legacy CHIRP should be fine as long as your radios doesn't have a new MCU version that was added after support for legacy CHIRP was ended.

Another thing that I have done is to install live Linux (I use Mint) on a flash drive. This allows you to boot up using Linux without affecting anything on you PC. You will then be able to install the latest CHIRP-next and use it to program your radio. I've done this several times and it works great.

Jim KC9HI

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Jim,
Thank you for the note and encouragement. I appreciate your response.

Also, I have just loaded dual boot Ubuntu onto a spare laptop to try it out and get familiar with it. Mint is one of the versions I also intend to try out. I have a number of electronic programs I would like to be able to use on Linux. I may have to stay with Windows though for some, like Eznec, unless someone can suggest otherwise.
Ray, W4BYG

Legacy CHIRP should be fine as long as your radios doesn't have a new MCU version that was added after support for legacy CHIRP was ended.

Another thing that I have done is to install live Linux (I use Mint) on a flash drive. This allows you to boot up using Linux without affecting anything on you PC. You will then be able to install the latest CHIRP-next and use it to program your radio. I've done this several times and it works great

Jim KC9HI

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On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 18:39:56 -0400, "Ray, W4BYG" <w4byg@...> wrote:

Mint is one of the versions I also intend
to try out. I have a number of electronic programs I would like to be
able to use on Linux. I may have to stay with Windows though for some,
like Eznec, unless someone can suggest otherwise.

I prefer Mint over Ubuntu but it's a personal thing, so you might like Ubuntu
better. Both are Debian based Linux distributions.

As for running Windows programs in Linux, install WINE. Some (not all) Windows
programs run fine using WINE. There's a commercial version that is a little more
sophisticated. It's called Crossover. I have got my Windows email program to run
in Linux with WINE or Crossover.


Donald KX8K



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