This was originally posted on the other ft-60 group, and I thought
the subscribers here might benefit from it. Please note: This is not
an attack on Jim KC8UNJ's Commander software. I think Jim has done an
excellent job in creating free programming software for yaesu radios,
and only asks for a donation, way to go Jim. I just want other ft-60
owners that may have a radio with a similar serial number range to be
careful. Also, I have no interest or connection to yaesu.
I purchased a FT-60 serial # 4H010XXX and programmed it using
KC8UNJ's commander software.
I can't remember which set menu item I was, however, what I was doing
was manually programming the memory groups since I couldn't do it
from Jim's software, and I was adding memories to a bank and somehow,
the radio had gotten into the set menu. So since I didn't want to
take a chance in overwriting any memories or messing anything up,
since I had 130 memories in it, I thought by turning off the radio,
then back on, would get me back into a normal mode. That's when I
turned the radio back on, the musical tone was heard, and the
backlight came on, all normal, but the display was blank where I'm
normally used to see the batt voltage, then reverting to a memory
channel or vfo, basically, the radio was dead.
A friend suggested I call Yaesu and ask for help since it was still
under warranty. I got a real nice person on the other end named
Michael who tried to walk me through the reset procedure which didn't
work of course, then he suggested I bring it in. I got there 15
minutes before closing and showed him the problem, he gave it to
their tech and within 15 more minutes later, he had brought it back
to life and even with 80% of my memory channels intact!. I asked him
how they fixed it, but they wouldn't answer that question. One of the
first questions he asked me was "did you use a pirate software to
program the radio", and I asked him why, and he said "there are
pirate software versions out there which could potentially damage the
radio".
Because of this occurance, I am going to try the RT ADMS software.
The radio was configured as follows: Modified per mods.dk web page,
programmed with the kc8unq's commander software, S/N : 4H010XXX
Purchased 9-27-04 Location: Los Angeles, Ca.
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