February 2009 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] 2200H?
by Jeffrey Nawrot 01 May '09

01 May '09

I'm having an issue trying to import a CSV into the 2200H program file. I was able to import it into my ID800 and into my 92AD, but when I do it on the 2200H it seems to just lock up. Am I doing something wrong? Tnx in advance

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[chirp_users] MacOS Version of Chirp
by IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

ALCON: I have been a Unix System Administrator for many years, and in fact would be quite capable of testing, compiling, or generating object code on my Intel Mac for the benefit of the community. My understanding of the current Apple Development Kit is that you can generate Intel based code on the PPC, whether it is "Universal" code for any target processor (PPC or Intel), or Intel specific (and optimized) code that is intended for only the Intel chip. Now I understand this is mostly written in Python, anyway, but, just some food for thought here. I saw where someone was speaking of a ".19" version (beta?) but given the open source nature of the software, was surprised to not see it on the download site. One thing I had been working on was a decoder for reading the code plug from an "ICF" file. Now that I see this software is here, I would be willing to try to integrate that into Chirp such that we could at least read and for sure try to shoot for writing "ICF" files compatible with the ICOM software for Windows. -- Very Respectfully, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR Las Vegas, NV / Beverly Hills, CA / Philadelphia, PA / Washington, DC Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra) / Marine Radio Operator Permit (MROP) email: teners(a)bh90210.net (also carbon copies to my Blackberry) phone: +(1) 310.358.0202 (Beverly Hills, CA, forwards to mobile phone) phone: +(1) 215.338.6005 (Philadelphia, PA, voice mail only) E-Fax: +(1) 928.437.4505 (Telecopier, fax to email gateway) Military emails (checked monthly until remote NMCI access is secured) NIPRNET: stuart.tener(a)navy.mil NIPRNET: stuart.b.tener(a)us.army.mil NRO: teners(a)nro.mil TS/SCI: tenerstu(a)nro.ic.gov (GWAN) Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information, though strictly at the UNCLASSIFIED level. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the originate message.

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Re: [chirp_users] Info
by Dan Smith 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

> Worked EXACTLY as advertised. I did this on band a first - worked just > fine and thanks for the clarification. Steve Wow, even _I'm_ surprised it worked :D -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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[chirp_users] Info
by Steven Samuel Bosshard (NU5D) 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

I have both a 91 and 92 here on the desk. The 91 is programmed to my liking. Is there a quick step by step on how to transport the contents (memories) from the 91 to the 92 ? Sorry I am kinda dense on this and please be patient. (both radios communicate with the chirp. I can save and load csv files. I get a schema error trying to load *.chirp files). Thanks, Steve NU5D -- "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Mother Teresa

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[chirp_users] Building Chirp under MacOS
by IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

ALCON: Ok, I just gave it a try, and found that it is missing a "gtk" library under MacOS. -- Very Respectfully, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR Las Vegas, NV / Beverly Hills, CA / Philadelphia, PA / Washington, DC Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra) / Marine Radio Operator Permit (MROP) email: teners(a)bh90210.net (also carbon copies to my Blackberry) phone: +(1) 310.358.0202 (Beverly Hills, CA, forwards to mobile phone) phone: +(1) 215.338.6005 (Philadelphia, PA, voice mail only) E-Fax: +(1) 928.437.4505 (Telecopier, fax to email gateway) Military emails (checked monthly until remote NMCI access is secured) NIPRNET: stuart.tener(a)navy.mil NIPRNET: stuart.b.tener(a)us.army.mil NRO: teners(a)nro.mil TS/SCI: tenerstu(a)nro.ic.gov (GWAN) Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information, though strictly at the UNCLASSIFIED level. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the originate message.

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[chirp_users] MacOS Version of Chirp
by IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

ALCON: I have both an ICOM IC-91AD and IC-2820 as well as a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.5.6, and would like to know when a version of Chirp might be forthcoming for the Mac. Construction of a cable has been completed, and I look forward to having my radio programmable natively under MacOS. 73, Stuart, N3GWG -- Very Respectfully, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR Las Vegas, NV / Beverly Hills, CA / Philadelphia, PA / Washington, DC Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra) / Marine Radio Operator Permit (MROP) email: teners(a)bh90210.net (also carbon copies to my Blackberry) phone: +(1) 310.358.0202 (Beverly Hills, CA, forwards to mobile phone) phone: +(1) 215.338.6005 (Philadelphia, PA, voice mail only) E-Fax: +(1) 928.437.4505 (Telecopier, fax to email gateway) Military emails (checked monthly until remote NMCI access is secured) NIPRNET: stuart.tener(a)navy.mil NIPRNET: stuart.b.tener(a)us.army.mil NRO: teners(a)nro.mil TS/SCI: tenerstu(a)nro.ic.gov (GWAN) Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information, though strictly at the UNCLASSIFIED level. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the originate message.

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[chirp_users] Special channels
by David Tilson 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Me again... Understanding that you are one busy dude and that this has possibly dropped off your radar, because I haven't hassled you for a while, but when you have a spare 5 minutes could you please add the ability to export / import the special channels (eg: C0, C1, etc) to/from the CSV file routines. Thanks, davidt

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8
by David Tilson 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

G'day Dan, > It takes so freaking long to clone the 2820 that I'm always > apt to choose the easiest route that works unless there is a > real problem. It's a pain to debug issues in that thing :) Yep, I understand. The DSQL and Code problem appears to be resolved on the 2820 with 0.1.9b4. Thanks for that. I haven't been able to replicate the lockup of CHIRP when an invalid frequency was entered through a CSV import on the 2820 in 0.1.9b4. I did try something on the 92AD Bank B that had an interesting result. I had a valid frequency entered in Mem 57 of 146.6375 MHz. I performed a CSV import with Mem 57 set to an invalid freq of 136.6375. The import screen showed that the new freq would be 136.6375, however when the import occurred the frequency remained at 146.6375 (unchanged). I then deleted Mem 57 as well as Mem 58 from the radio and did the CSV import again. In the CSV file Mem 57 had the corrupt frequency and Mem 58 had a valid frequency. This time nothing was saved in Mem 57, however Mem 58 imported correctly. > I hope you > are far enough away that you won't have to worry about > endangering yourself, your family, or your home. Be safe and > good luck! Yes, we are safe thanks. The majority of the fires have been at least an hours drive to the north east and approx 2 hours drive to the east. We are still concerned though as there is March is traditionally the month for fires down here. Cheers, davidt

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8
by David Tilson 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

G'day Nate, Thanks for your concerns, it is appreciated. The koala, who has become known famously around the world as Sam, is now in a wildlife shelter recovering with 3rd degree burns on her paws (Sam is a female koala). They showed a brief reunion with Sam and the firefighter, who gave her a drink, a few nights ago on TV and they now appear to have a special bond... Out of interest Richard VK3JFK, Peter VK3TQ and I flew over the fires last Sunday night, on the way back from demonstrating D-STAR at an interstate hamfest, and from 30'000 feet we could clearly see the enormity of the fire front and the devastation below. Regards, Davidt, VK3UR

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.8
by David Tilson 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

G'day Dan, > So, I've got a fix to clear those values *if* we're setting a > non-DV memory to DV mode. The reason I'm doing this instead > of blindly resetting them is so that if you've set the values > in your radio (since CHIRP doesn't support them), I don't > want to clobber them. Thus, to see this fix, you'll need to > do something like reset your radio and re-import from CSV or > some such (let me know if that doesn't make any sense). > > Anyway, give 0.1.9b4 a shot and let me know if it fixes the > issue for you. OK, thanks for looking at that. I'll try it later today and report back. Interesting though was that the memories that were being affected had previously been DV memories, not FM. In some cases I was overwriting existing DV memories with CHIRP and in other cases I had deleted the contents of the memories with the CS-2820 software prior to importing with CHIRP. Also interesting was the fact that the error was only occurring in memory locations that were being directly written to. > > On a secondary issue, I discovered yesterday when importing a CSV > > file into the IC-92AD, with CHIRP 0.1.8, that if a frequency is out > > of range (example: 136.6375, instead of 146.6375) then CHIRP locked > > up and had to be killed / restarted. > > I have not been able to replicate this with 0.1.9b3. Can > you? No probs. I'll try that as well and report back. Thanks also for your concerns regarding the bushfires around Victoria in our off-list emails. The fires started last Saturday after the temp exceeded 46C / 115F with strong winds and the stats so far are: 181 deceased and still expected to rise, more than 1,800 homes destroyed and more than 7,000 people homeless. It has been estimated that over 1,000,000 animals died in the fires. Many people still aren't allowed to return to their properties due to safety reasons and don't know if they have a home to return to. Regards, Davidt, VK3UR

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