May 2009 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.9b12
by David Tilson 01 May '09

01 May '09

G'day Dan, > I just posted 0.1.9b12 with a couple of changes: > > - Add call channels for ic9x Confirmed and thank you... Just a suggestion, but as people probably use the Call channels a lot, how about adding them to the normal Memory Range when reading memories (in a future release), rather than having to tick on Special Channels to read them. > - Show a file type on file->save as to make it a little more clear > that you can't change the file type just by saving Confirmed on my 2820. > On my ic9x, CHIRP is incorrectly showing a TONE setting on > one of my call channels, but not the other. I couldn't replicate this on my 92AD. > So, hopefully this looks good enough to call it 0.1.9 final. > Dave, any objections (after you test this)? Nope, good to go from my perspective. I presume this will (probably) be the Dayton release in which case congratulations are in order. CHIRP is only about 9 months old from when you first mentioned the concept to now and I personally consider it a valuable tool. This is especially impressive given your parallel development of D-RATS. Cheers, Davidt, VK3UR

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[chirp_users] CHIRP 0.1.9b12
by Dan Smith 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi all, I just posted 0.1.9b12 with a couple of changes: - Add call channels for ic9x - Show a file type on file->save as to make it a little more clear that you can't change the file type just by saving On my ic9x, CHIRP is incorrectly showing a TONE setting on one of my call channels, but not the other. I've looked at the memory data and it sure enough has the bits set indicating the tone encoder, even though it does not display on my radio's screen. This seems relatively minor though. So, hopefully this looks good enough to call it 0.1.9 final. Dave, any objections (after you test this)? Thanks! -- Dan Smith dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/ www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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[chirp_users] Local OS Settings and CHIRP
by Juergen Sturhahn 01 May '09

01 May '09

Starting D-Star with an ID-800H I was trying to reduce the work load of manual entering all memory information directly into the radio and installed CHIRP. I have to admit that I run into nearly every possible trap the program offers for a new user. But with the help of Dan I was able to get it up and running at the end. Might be a beginner's guide or a help file within the program could help to reduce the efforts in climbing up the learning curve . (based on my experience I could offer some limited help). There are some issues, however, I consider as worthwhile to discuss in this group: 1. Excel uses the local settings of the OS. Therefore xxx.csv - files created by the export of an xxx.img-files to a xxx.csv cannot be re-opened again by CHIRP once they have been processed and eventually modified in Excel and saved there again as xxx.csv or yyy.csv Reason is that the local settings in the OS (here German instead of English (USA)) create semicolons (;) instead of commas (,) as separator, don't use a dot (.) but a comma (,) for the decimal information etc. . I have tried to modify the file by an editor using search and replace but the editor doesn't save the result in a way CHIRP would finally process. It would be nice if the program could work in a non-English environment as well. 2. After a successful export and import of xxx.csv under English local settings I have tried to do the same with xxx.chirp. This failed, however, with the error notice "Unable to load schema". At the moment I don't know why this happens. 3. I have imported the xxx.csv into Excel (with English settings), saved it as xxx_1.csv and tried to import or open the saved file in CHIRP. Both failed with the error notice list index out of range. I assume there is something I have to set in Excel but unfortunately I don't know what to do here. Might be it's somehow related to my Excel version but not sure. 73 Juergen, DL8LE

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[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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