[Hamlib-developer] Yaesu ft-857 and digi modes

[Michal D. <mic...@gm...>]

Hello,

I have been playing a lot recently with PSK modes using fldigi. I have
noticed that the yaesu ft-857 backend doesn't distinguish between
upper and lower sideband digital mode (menu item 38).
This causes lot of trouble on bands where USB is used (when QSY button
is pressed in fldigi, or when calculating the real QSO frequency).

With some use of undocumented CAT features and some research I have
put together small patch, that reads EEPROM data. When SW asks hamlib
what mode is being used, hamlib will also consider the
value from eeprom.

When changing the mode in the menu, new value will become available in
the EEPROM _after_ pressing the "FUNC" button.

Setting mode from SW is left untouched, as writing to EEPROM is
potentially dangerous (and I don't feel like destroying my rig, yet)

  Michal