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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '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-03142012 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #35 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [icomciv] Don't attempt to communicate with the radio if we were not passed a serial connection [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix setting the index and name fields editable and visible after the recent change to the bank editor's column count [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Emit the changed signal when banks are changed [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add a _wipe_memory_banks() function to the Yaesu base class and call that when setting an empty memory on drivers that support banks (vx7, vx8, ft7800) [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Report failure to add a memory to a bank to the user Rev 2: Make the error dialog transient for the owning window so that it's modal [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix bank UI to make empty memories insensitive. This improves the visual nature, but also prevents the UI from asking the driver to add blank memories to a bank if the user accidentally clicks in one of the boxes. Rev 2: Ignore clicks on insensitive checkboxes [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Make Kenwood drivers refuse to talk to an incompatible model (since you can now ask it to do so) [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Allow choosing a specific model even if the vendor supports a detection scheme. This lets you choose, for example, a specific model Icom or Kenwood radio and bypass the detection routine during download. This can avoid certain issues with detection and/or speed up the process of starting the download. [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix some places in the UI where we delete by setting a memory with empty=True instead of calling erase_memory() [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Print a traceback of where a job was created from, when there is an exception while running it [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [vx5] bugfix: get_raw_memory() was off by one

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[chirp_users] chirp-daily-03132012-installer
by James E. Wells (KDØAJZ) 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Downloaded the latest build. I am still having the problem that the program will not find the model of my ICOM. I have an ICOM 92AD. There has only been a few that have been able to read the radio without giving the error that it could not get the model of my radio. Does anyone have something that has to be turned off or on on the radio to allow the program to read the files on the radio. I am running Windows Vista AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-57. Thanks James KD0AJZ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '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-03132012 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #34 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [vx5] add power level support [Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl(a)gmail.com>] [vx5] allow 8-character names [Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl(a)gmail.com>] [vx5] bugfix: set non-empty memories visible. Imports masked memories as empty. [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Updated translation from Fabio

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[chirp_users] Need Windows test help
by Dan Smith 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hi all, I think I tracked down the issue recently uncovered on Windows Vista and 7, regarding weird display issues. I would really appreciate it if a few people could grab and test the following build: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/gtk-test/ I would like to hear from someone on each of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Please download and install, and report the version numbers shown in the Help->About box. Then, please do some downloading, uploading, importing, and editing to make sure that it's stable and functional. It looks like the issue resulting in the weird behavior on Windows Vista/7 might have been causing other minor instabilities in all versions of Windows, so this will be good to get fixed. Note that this has no effect on the Linux or MacOS builds at all. Thanks, and I hope to hear from some testers soon so we can get this pushed out in an official daily tomorrow. -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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[chirp_users] ICOM ERROR
by James E. Wells (KDØAJZ) 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Now I can’t get it to read the memory of my radio. ICOM 92AD. I have to be doing something wrong. I suppose. I got yesterday’s build and then got todays. Did not try yesterdays out but when I hooked it up it says it can not identify the model of my ICOM. 73’s James -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Earl Wells KDØAJZ Blue Springs Amateur Radio Club Output 444.950 MHz Input: + offset PL=107.2 Hz Output 147.015 MHz Input: + offset PL=151.4 Hz Member ARRL Jackson County-Missouri ARES

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[chirp_users] [PATCH] [vx5] bugfix, power levels, and 8-char names
by Tom Hayward 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Here are 3 patches for the VX5 driver. I hope attachments work; I don't know how to use hg email! Here is a summary: changeset: 1395:693766bb1594 branch: vx5 tag: tip user: Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl(a)gmail.com> date: Sat Mar 10 17:10:27 2012 -0700 summary: [vx5] allow 8-character names changeset: 1394:c0f877c47900 branch: vx5 user: Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl(a)gmail.com> date: Sat Mar 10 16:41:25 2012 -0700 summary: [vx5] add power level support changeset: 1393:35b6ec0749d2 branch: vx5 parent: 954:09af2a62cf91 user: Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl(a)gmail.com> date: Sat Mar 10 16:01:04 2012 -0700 summary: [vx5] bugfix: set non-empty memories visible. This last one was a significant bug. The VX5 has a bit for each memory called "visible". From the VX5, you can mask a memory, rendering it invisible. When chirp was creating a new memory, it was not setting this bit, so newly added memories were invisible! The original tester must have only tried editing existing memories where the "visible" bit was already set. Tom KD7LXL

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '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-03102012 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #33 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add Fabio to the italian translator credits in About

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '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/0.2.0 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #32 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Added tag release_0_2_0 for changeset df5342f5ce3d [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] 0.2.0 Release [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Disable the legacy bank support in .chirp files temporarily. This needs to be retooled in order to support the new model but I don't want to delay the release in order to do it.

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Re: [chirp_users] FT2800
by Jack Geneaux 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Dan, I am happy using the laptop to update the 2800 -- its working. Tweaking to get the Athlon to work is not needed from my perspective. However, I am willing to run trials if sometime you want to tweak the code for the 2800. I run Ubuntu Oneric for most of my ham stuff, but also have Windows 7/XP and Mac(Lion) machines. 73, Jack (W0FNQ)

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[chirp_users] CHIRP 0.2.0
by Dan Smith 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hi all, As you just saw from the build system, I froze 0.2.0. I have decided to change the version numbering just a bit. Every big formal release that includes new features will increment the middle number (the next one with feature change will be 0.3.0). I plan to make a couple of smaller releases where the last number increments, which will include only fixes on top of the last release. These would be things like fixes against specific drivers to address bugs, etc. This will let me post 0.2.1 sooner than later and incorporate things that are breaking "normal" users each day. We'll see how the plan works :) Everyone here is probably painfully aware of everything that has changed since 0.1.12, but I wrote up the high level details in the news item on the website: http://chirp.danplanet.com/news/2 Thanks to everyone that contributed code, radios, and bug reports! -- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS

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