Radio reports: help ShackNerd support your radio

ShackNerd is fully tested against exactly one radio, the IC-7300 MK2 its author owns. Support for every other model gets built from radio reports sent in by people who own them.

What a report is

A read-only snapshot of how your radio describes itself:

• What the radio said during the network handshake, including its name, its CI-V address and its audio capabilities
• The scope geometry actually observed, which is what a display profile needs
• A sweep of read-only queries and the radio's raw answers, including the refusals, which are just as informative. Icoms are swept in CI-V; Kenwood and Yaesu radios are swept in their own CAT dialect, so a report from any of the three makes is equally useful

It changes nothing on the radio and never keys the transmitter. Every probe is a read. It contains no passwords and no network addresses.

Making one

In Settings, under Help and support, press Download a radio report. It takes about half a minute and saves a small JSON file. Email that file to [email protected] with a line about which radio it is.

If ShackNerd cannot even connect to your radio

Press the button anyway. The report degrades instead of failing: it records whatever the radio did say during the attempt and exactly where things stopped, and that partial report is the most valuable kind, because the radios that fail to connect are the ones with the most to teach.

The command line equivalent is shacknerd -radio-report report.json.