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Re: [chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users
by GaryErrol 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

I down loaded UNetbootin and installed on a micro SD card in an USB adapter. When I ran the program it asks me to Select Distribution and than gives me a list. Which one should I choose? My operating system is XP. GaryErrol -------Original Message------- From: Jim Unroe [rock.unroe(a)gmail.com] Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 To: Discussion of CHIRP [chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com] Reply To: Discussion of CHIRP [chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com] Subject: Re: [chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users My favorite for burning CD images in Windows is ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/). It is very reliable and free. Another thing you can do is 'burn' the image to a USB flash drive using UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/). That's what I did. Jim KC9HI On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com> wrote: > I downloaded the file to my Windows desktop, then sent it to a CD. Both > of my computers are set to boot CD then HD, but Windows still starts > up. I've done something wrong. It's an image of a CD, which means you need to burn it to the CD as an image, not just as a file on the CD. I'm sure googling "burn image to cd in windows" will turn up something useful. I imagine Windows 7 has a way to do this built-in. Both Linux and MacOS have had this point-and-click behavior integrated for years, without add-on software. -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users

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Re: [chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users
by B Giff 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Download the .exe version of the liveCD. Once downloaded, double click on the file. After a minute or so, a window will open. Click OK in that window, your CD tray will open and you will be prompted to insert a blank CD. Insert the blank CD, close the tray and click OK on the popup. It will burn the image to CD for you. Then simply reboot your computer to the CD. The exe version is fully self-contained. It requires no additional software to make it work. The iso version on the other hand does require additional software. So again, if you are a Windows user and in doubt, download the Chirp_liveCD_23Dec12_32bit.exe file. Bob

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Re: [chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users
by Lou Blasco 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Yes Agreed. I have done exactly this on both Windows XP and Windows 7 and it works as Bob describes. If you doubleclick the exe and it does not open a CD burning utility then you've got a a bad file and should download it again. There's no need for any other CD burning program. Hugh, if you haven't followed Bob's procedure exactly you may just have a CD that is only good as a coaster. Please let us know how if you get everything sorted out. Lou VK3ALB At 10:19 26/12/2012, you wrote: >Download the .exe version of the liveCD. Once downloaded, double >click on the file. After a minute or so, a window will open. Click >OK in that window, your CD tray will open and you will be prompted >to insert a blank CD. Insert the blank CD, close the tray and click >OK on the popup. It will burn the image to CD for you. Then simply >reboot your computer to the CD. > >The exe version is fully self-contained. It requires no additional >software to make it work. The iso version on the other hand does >require additional software. So again, if you are a Windows user >and in doubt, download the Chirp_liveCD_23Dec12_32bit.exe file. > >Bob > >_______________________________________________ >chirp_users mailing list >chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com >http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users

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[chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users
by Dan Smith 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Hi all, A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed. This concept is common in the Linux world, but if you're not familiar with it, here is a brief description: Users can download and burn the live CD image to a disc (or a USB stick), which makes the media bootable to a self-contained version of Linux, completely separate from your regular system. Linux supports almost every USB-to-serial adapter without fussing with a driver, which makes this a very easy way to program a radio with very little else (besides a programming cable). Booting this CD on relatively recent hardware is likely to be very easy, and will land you in a point-and-click environment with CHIRP already running for you. If you routinely program other people's radios, having this disc in your toolkit should mean that you can boot just about anyone's computer to an environment that will run CHIRP, saving you from having to figure out which driver their hardware needs and modifying their system. If you have trouble with drivers or other issues on your own system, this would give you a relatively simple way to run CHIRP outside of the rest of your system, and without making any changes to it. If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/ Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work! -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20121225 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #133 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv5r] Fix tuning step selection for firmware >=291 Fixes #370

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[chirp_users] Kenwood tm-v71a no longer responding
by Paul Harmor 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Just recently got back into using Chirp for my radios, after a few months away. Soon as I installed the daily (5-7 days ago), I was THRILLED to find that it'd finally talk to my tm-v71a correctly. Just today, however, after having updated to the 2012-12-24, it fails to receive a response from radio, again, either via auto-detect or manual entry of tm-v71. As well, wondering why I've gotta' run it as root? It worx, but isn't optimal...

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20121224 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #132 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [ic2820] Fix typo in memory format Fixes #304 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [uv5r] Remove the code attempting to identify the radio version When the 291 firmware came out, it looked like we were going to have to identify the version from the string that gets sent back during the initial start-clone-mode handshake. It was never reliable, and apparently not very identifying anyway. Since we now have the ability to identify the actual firmware version from the aux block, this change makes the identification routine just send known magics until the radio responds. Should fix #373 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Tweak to the build process #93

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20121223 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #131 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [csv] Add "off" duplex mode to CSV driver Fixes #303 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv5r] Add DTMFST setting and power-on message adjustments Specifically: - I fixed an error in the #seekto 0x0E28; structure. u8 band; was missing so everything after u8 almod; was off by 1 byte. - I've added a setting for DTMFST on the Advanced Settings menu - I've added a edit box for the 6 + Power-On Message - I've added a setting for the Power-On Message #372

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Re: [chirp_users] Writing to Yaesu Vx8G
by Dan Brooks 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

Hi, I have also seen this issue where I can pull data off my Vx8DR but I cannot push data to my radio using chirp 0.2.3 on OSX 10.6.8. The radio sits and waits to receive data, and chirps acts like it is about to start sending data, but the progress bar never starts to move. I regret I don't have my radio with me right now and therefore cannot produce a log file or test changes. Using chrip 0.2.2 on ubuntu 12.04 works fine. Dan > John Gorena <mailto:John.Gorena@Gorena.org> > December 22, 2012 12:30 PM > OK, got it. Thanks. I will get his radio back over here to play with and > test this week. > -- > John > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: chirp_users-bounces(a)intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users- >> bounces(a)intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Dan Smith >> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:19 AM >> To: Discussion of CHIRP >> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Writing to Yaesu Vx8G >> >>> Debug log? Ummmm... I do not know where that would be,, >> http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_to_report_issues >> >>> It did not error out. It just did not update with the 20121106 build. >> You said it didn't upload, right? If not, then there should be something > in the debug log. >> -- >> Dan Smith >> www.danplanet.com >> KK7DS > > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > Dan Smith <mailto:dsmith@danplanet.com> > December 22, 2012 12:18 PM >> Debug log? Ummmm... I do not know where that would be,, > > http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_to_report_issues > >> It did not error out. It just did not update with the 20121106 >> build. > > You said it didn't upload, right? If not, then there should be something > in the debug log. > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > Dan Smith <mailto:dsmith@danplanet.com> > December 22, 2012 11:32 AM > > No, I haven't made any changes to the VX-8 driver in a long time, and > none since the 0.2.3 release. Thus, AFAIK, it working on 0.2.3 and not > on any daily since then makes no sense to me. If you are _sure_ about > this, please open a bug on the website and attach your debug log from > when it fails to write. > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users

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Re: [chirp_users] Writing to Yaesu Vx8G
by Dan Smith 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

> Debug log? Ummmm... I do not know where that would be,, http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_to_report_issues > It did not error out. It just did not update with the 20121106 > build. You said it didn't upload, right? If not, then there should be something in the debug log. -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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