January 2013 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

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-20130104 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #140 [Filippi Marco <iz3gme.marco(a)gmail.com>] [KG-UV6] Expose most of the known settings Part of feature #335 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] Handle get_memory() errors during import/export. Fixes #395 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] Fix export error dialog. #395 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [ic208] Add test image #222 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [ic208] Add special channel support #222 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [ic208] Add Icom IC-208H driver Thanks to John Hansman for loaning his radio for this. #222

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[chirp_users] I was hoping to see a Yaesu FT-50R in the list of radios
by Ron Longhurst 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Hello. I'm new to this group, so please pardon me if I don't send/word a question the right way. Is there any chance there are plans to add the FT-50R to the list of radios? I have just got back a bit with the 2 meter group here in Saskatchewan, Canada. But I was able to program my radio with a USB cable . now that's a lot slicker than the old DB9 serial cable. Just askin. Thanks, Ron VE5AB

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

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-20130103 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #139 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv5r] Add 'Roger Beep' Setting Added to Basic Settings tab #394 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv5r] Add 'Alarm Mode' Setting Allow setting the Alarm Mode to 'Site', 'Tone' or 'Code' Added to Advanced Settings tab #393

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[chirp_users] D72 export and COM10 follow up
by Sander Pool 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi Dan, thanks for your replies. I read the digest and it's not possible to create a threaded discussion that way so I hope you don't mind a new message. I installed today's build without issue. The D72 export issue has not changed. I wait until all memories are read and select file->export. The progress bar quickly goes 4/5 or so to the right and then stalls. I exited that dialog after a few minutes. No file is created. In this version I was able to enter COM10 by keyboard. I think the prior version had that no text input but perhaps I don't remember correctly. In any event, typing in the COM port is fine by me. It read the F6A channels pretty quickly and was also able to export them without trouble. I suppose I should attempt to run chirp as native python in a debugger and see why the D72 doesn't export. I'm familiar with python but mostly scripts, no GUI apps. I'll check the wiki for Windows build instructions and see if I can get it going. Thanks and 73, Sander

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

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-20130102 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #138 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix import override sequencing The import_mem() logic allows the caller to pass in overrides for fields in the memory, which allows for changing the name or number during the import. These overrides were being applied *after* the import logic, which does things like filtering names for valid characters, which of course defeats the purpose of the import. This patch moves the overrides to before the import conversion logic to avoid that issue. Fixes #388 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [vx7] Add support for "auto" mode Related to #390 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [icq7] Add support for "Auto" mode This fixes #390 by adding support for auto modes in the ICQ7 driver. It also adds support to the chirp core, and teaches the import logic how to make (very rough) guesses about an appropriate mode when importing from a radio that supports automatic mode selection to one that does not. It has the side-effect of allowing Auto modes in CSV files. [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv5r] Add 'Broadcast FM Radio' Setting Added 'Broadcast FM Radio' Setting for UV-5R Added #seekto 0x0E52; structure required by above #392 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [ft60] Add odd-split support. #391 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [tests] Fix logs directory creation on first run #93 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv5r] Add 'Dual Watch Priority' Setting Implement a Dual Watch Priority (TDR-AB) setting to compliment the existing Dual Watch (TDR) setting on the Advanced Settings Tab #387

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Re: [chirp_users] chirp linux (Roger D Knapp)
by B Giff 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Roger, Got a few of things for you to try. In Chirp, hit Help then About. It should give you a popup with CHIRP daily-2012mmdd. If you get CHIRP 0.2.3 so something similar, you have the stable version and not the daily. You probably want the daily. Did you install Chirp from source on your Ubuntu machine? While updating the Chirp LiveCD, I discovered a problem with updating via the ppa. That is, since I had done a manual install of Chirp from source, when I updated via the ppa, it would tell me that the most recent version had been installed, but when I tried to open it, the old version would open. The fix was removing the manually installed version. I deleted everything Chirp related from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. Then Chirp would open the the new version that I installed via the ppa. Make sure you have the correct repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dansmith-chirp-snapshots-precise.list. One of the two files should have the following lines: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu precise main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu precise main If all else fails, download the Chirp liveCD, use UNetbootin to write it to a USB flash drive and mess around with things. Chirp works and properly updates from the ppa. And, best of all, if you mess it up, simply format the USB drive and write it again. (instructions are located in the wiki of the site below) sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/ The liveCD can even be installed to the hard drive as a fully functional operating system if you desire. I intentionally didn't make it obvious since I don't want people bricking their windows install. It is relatively easy especially if you have prior Linux experience. If you decide to do that, email me directly and I'll suggest a couple of tweaks that will make the hard drive install better. (the other) Bob

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[chirp_users] Not showing COM10
by Sander Pool 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi, as I reported in my previous email I'm trying to upload memories to my Kenwood TH-F6A. While that's not working yet I figured I'd try to download them first and verify CHIRP talks F6A. To my surprise CHIRP does not show COM10 as an available port even though it is in the device manager. Putty can open the port fine so it's not occupied. I use W7-x64. What can I do? thanks, Sander W1SOP

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[chirp_users] Still having trouble exporting channels from D72
by Sander Pool 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi, back in June I reported issues exporting memories from my D72. I never got it to work correctly so shelved CHIRP for later. Well, later is now. I got an F6A and would like to put the same channel list on it as my D72 has. Kenwood in their wisdom writes different control software for each radio so I was hoping CHIRP can help. I downloaded the latest released verion (CHIRP 0.2.3). It downloaded the memories from my D72 pretty quickly. Since I can't shove these downloaded memories straight into the F6A (upload to radio is greyed out) I figured I need to export and then import first. Problem is that export never finishes. It just sits there, no file is getting generated. This is with both the radio connected and not connected. It shows the 'preparing memory list' dialog, the progress bar moves and then stalls about 3/4 of the way there. I can exit the dialog but no file is generated. I've let CHIRP sit there for about 5 minutes which I think should be enough to re-load all the memories from the radio. Disconnecting the radio before export makes no difference. Can I please just export the contents of what is shown in the GUI? Thanks, Sander W1SOP

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

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-20130101 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #137 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [drx35] Add digital flag setting for Alinco DRx35 radios Fixes #374

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