On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:48:50 -0500, Fred McKenzie wrote:

In article ,
wa7kgx wrote:

CHIRP does not mention the FT-991 in their list of supported rigs.

I have written the odd program to do things with ICOM radios over the
years but have not done anything with Yaesy CAT codes. I do have an
FT-817nd which documents CAAT codes in the user manual.

I also have the FT-817nd, and downloaded manuals for the FT-857 and 897.
For all three, there is a procedure for holding down buttons to enter
the Clone mode. Clone mode is how CHIRP downloads and uploads data to
the radios. Choosing FT-897 in CHIRP might download something from the
FT-991, but it may not be the right format. But to try it, you would
need to find how to put the FT-991 into Clone mode.

I tried various combinations of buttons on the FT-991 when switching on
power, but have not found the Clone combination yet.

Holding in both the A=B and A/B buttons produces "Version Information"
for Main, DSP, TFT and C4FM. The screen lasts for 5 or 10 seconds and
goes back to the regular screen.

Holding in RCL/STO lights all the lights, but the radio does not respond
as far as I can tell.

Holding in CS gives a white screen. Then pressing Menu-Setup toggles
the screen between white and black.

I think I will take a list of questions for the Yaesu booth at the
Orlando Hamfest in a couple of weeks!

73,
Fred K4DII

The FT-991 CAT codes are similar to those of the FT-950.
Close but no cigar. For instance, the FT-991 FA command resuires an
extra digit needed to express frequencies above 99 MHz.

I suspect clone commands are not in the 991's future.
It should be possible tostore and retrieve the memory locations
individually. Shouldn't take too long as there are only a hundred or so.