Connecting Alinco DJ-W70HE to Chirp

[neilmParticipant]

Having the correct lead and showing in device manager, does anybody know how to connect an Alinco DJ-W70 transceiver to WIN 11 running Chirp?

Is there any other software that the radio works with?

Thanks

Regards,

Neil.

[M0PWXParticipant]

so long as you don’t have a yellow exclamation mark against the USB Serial port you should be good

i don’t know the alinco specifically, but the Baofengs i have you select the serial port then turn the radio on and on the baofeng the volume level is fairly critical (about 1/2 – 2/3 volume i find, but my chirp is on win 10

you may also find you either have to right click chirp and “run as admin” or go into the shortcut properties and select a “compatibility mode” for win 7 or win 10 due to all the extra security settings on win 11

73
Peter
M0PWX (not pete M0PSX who runs this site)

[neilmParticipant]

Peter,

Thank you for your post.

I got the requisite serial lead from Moonraker and it worked ‘out of the box’ but Chirp would work with the Alinco radio due to there not being available a necessary ‘plug-in’ file for the W70.

Some kind soul pointed me to a Maastrict retailer’s web site where the Alinco bespoke application was downloaded from.

Regards,

Neil.

(Newbie with no licence yet)
73.

[M0PWXParticipant]

glad you got it sorted

do you know your local repeater sites / frequencies?, if not look at https://ukrepeater.net/repeaterlist.html?filter=2M

if you have trouble working it out post back and i will help

the other frequency to listen out for is 437.800mhz the ISS Space station when its overhead, it has a cross band repeater (2m uplink with 70cm downlink) and you hear a lot of ham activity on it, look at https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=25544 it will show you where the ISS is, if you set you location (latitude and longitude) it will also give you predicted times the ISS is above the horizon, with a handheld and stock antenna outdoors when line of site you can normally hear the ISS when higher than about 40deg elevation above the horizon

hope this helps
73
Peter
M0PWX (not Pete M0PSX who runs the site)

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