Leixen Vv-898s Programming Software Download |WORK|

Previously I posted about manually programming the new Leixen VV-898 from Radioddity, and tonight had the opportunity to program the radio using CHIRP and the programming cable Radioddity just sent me. I downloaded CHIRP, plugged in the cable, and downloaded the settings from my radio. I made a couple of changes, and uploaded the changes back to the radio. What follows are the steps I took, and a video of my setup. Enjoy!

I plan to commit some more work to the patch this week and hope to have something released to nightly soon. Please provide feedback on the current patch if you have opportunity to try it out (use the leixen_107.py patch attached to this issue, and the instructions in update 13).

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Any further updates? I have a VV-898E with firmware version 1.07B. I am using the leixen_107.py from post 21 above with Chirp 20170311. It is almost working except for two things that I have noticed.

1) The first 5 memories are getting mangled.

2) The ability to directly enter a channel via keypad for Bank A is disabled.

What might be of interest to the CHIRP staff, is that the Factory Software uses 2 separate banks of 99 memories (a separate programming window for each one), and within each bank, the FIRST 3 MEMORIES of each bank are allocated to the VFO. They seem to be TEMP storage areas for band switching. Down the left hand side of the window, which is the first column and labelled [No.], the numbers begin this way: 136, next is 245, then 400, after those the 'normal' channel numbering (rows) begins, 01, 02, 03 .... 99.

Hello Everyone

I am new the CHIRP forum and hope that someone out there can help us. I am just a HAM volunteer scout leader setting up several small ham bases in my camps and outposts and I bought several VV-898E radios, many are great but 2 are dead and I am not getting any support from the seller or emailing Leixen direct after a month. First I bought the 898E thinking the hi-med-lo power was a nice option verse just hi-lo but I thought this was 200 channel one bank radio but what I have is a two bank radio. So as I mentioned one radio is dead, once powered up it just displays 22.9vdc and no buttons work. The factory software says either the port is busy or the radio refused to communicate, yet CHIRP can read and write however the radio still only displays the voltage? Anyone know any tips or tricks? We looked high and low on the internet with no luck. We opened the radio and pulled the CR2032 thinking the radio would lose all programming and default to factor setting but no luck. So if anyone would like to help the boggled ham scouter I would love to hear from you in this forum or email direct: scouterdonn@gmail.com many thanks for this forum.

Workaround: If I delete the stock leixen.py, and replace it with Brian's leixen_107.py (but rename it to leixen.py), I don't experience that weirdness with the saved file being identified as "Jetstream JT270MH: ".

Perhaps the issue is that in the standard leixen.py, Jetstream JT270MH has a _model_ident of 'LX-\x89\x85\x85', and in Brian's leixen_107.py, Leixen VV-898S107 has the same _model_ident. Does anybody know how to address that?

Hi, does anyone have a template I can upload to a version 1.08b radio, I can't seem to set the enable reset option, so cannot reset the radio, it seems to have been corrupted by v 1.07 of the leixen software......why is there no v1.08 from leixen OOI?

No luck here. I'm fairly new to CHIRP and brand new to the Leixen VV-898S version 1.08. Channels scrambled as reported above using chirp-daily-20181009. Loaded module leixen_dualbank.py, looks the same. Changed name and freq in CHIRP for channels 2-11 then uploaded to the radio. Channels 1-7 that I had manually programmed still there (CHIRP should have overwritten them but did not. Channels 11 & 12 were overwritten by CHIRP. Any suggestions?

I ordered a cable & software from RT Systems; they say theirs works with V1.08. We will see...

BTW I'm using Windows 10.

David, my only suggestion for you is to close Chirp, open Chirp, load module leixen_dualbank.py, download from the radio, make changes to the Chirp file, then upload to the radio. From your description, it's not clear to me if you uploaded/downloaded before loading leixen_dualbank.py. In my testing, that would sometimes screw things up. I needed a new Chirp session with leixen_dualbank.py loaded in order to ensure things worked smoothly.

Having come across a number of problems programming this radio I looked through the list of Issues on the Chirp website and found this thread. This seems to be describing the issues I'm having, mainly:

I see that this has been ongoing for some time but that there seems to be some sort of workaround using a supplementary Python file called "leixen_dualbank.py" which I have found at the top of this thread.

Just bought the VV-898E, kinda bumbed to find out about the "dual memory" shenanigans - which effectively halfs the memory for some. I can however confirm the that the script "leixen_dualbank.py": _dualbank.py modified by Alessandro Dogliotti in "Note 91": -91 of this thread works with the VV-898E, but has to be used with VV898SDualBank available in the daily builds - I was using daily-20200107."

I understand, but Brian did a couple posts in 2018 and rest of his activity is back to 2016.

I don't know how we can find an active developer with leixen availability and experience, i opened a ticket to ask for one to have a look here and was closed without further informations.

Audio is very loud for such a small radio. Can hear very clear at about half way up. would give at least four stars but duel watch will mess up if you get to talking back and forth, I have 3 of them and all three do it. You will miss what the other guy is saying and wonder if they ever herd you. Mic is pretty small, i guess to match the radio size. Programming is not bad with either chirp of the software that comes with it. Plus you get the programming cable and software with it. Power does fluctuate a bit. I have seen as low as 15, 16 watts and as high as 29, 30 watts. There is a glitch in the software where sometimes you have to push the ptt buttom to make the keys on the mic work but not a big deal if your only using one freq. Scan is a little slow if you have a long scan list. Bottom line, not bad, could be better and I hope they last at least a couple of years.

I use an Apple Macbook with OSX, and the various knock-off USB to TTL cables don't work well for me. For that reason, I use an FTDI Friend when programming radios, Arduinos and the like. If you have driver compatibility problems with cheap cables, there's a good chance a genuine FTDI chip will work flawlessly.

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