Thanks!
It does make sense to include [one weather?] broadcast channel in amongst a scanning list of, say, local repeaters, if one can. Even more sense if one is on a SOTA trip for which CHIRP was used to build a bank with appropriate repeaters.
On Nov 3, 2024, at 08:37, Dan Smith via Developers developers@lists.chirpmyradio.com wrote:
I’d welcome A way to show in the Band tab selected SPECIALS, or maybe even a new SPECIAL_SPECIALS. Not all of the SPECIALS entries for Yaesu are Bank-accesible. NOT showing empty memories in the banks would be welcome by me and I’d guess others.
I've got code for both of these I wrote last night, mostly done but I need to give it another once-over before I post. You can work on top of that.
We’ve not discussed it before in that way. I’m noticing many radios that can receive AM-broadcast up to 1 GHz (roughly.) AFAIK, only Yaesu places read-only broadcast memories into the radio, but I’d wager other manufacturers may do the same. Much of that functionality can be had by simply putting the appropriate data into regular memory. Several of these categories are ones CHIRP can download already (but not the SW broadcast entries) so one need not remember them without help. But considering the more than 150 broadcast addresses that Yaesu defines is equivalent to some 10% of the total memory space, it’d be nice to access them.
I'm not aware of anyone else that pre-programs immutable channels into their radio, with the exception of the seven US weather band channels. I've never seen a radio that lets you put those into a bank, mostly because they're already sort of in a bank of their own. I think a lot of people use banks for scanning, and it doesn't make much sense to scan the broadcast channels.