October 2013 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] OS-X 10.9 Maverics.
by Milton Hywatt 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

Anyone using the USB to Baofeng /Wouxun and a dozen others named Chinese radios cable with PL2303 chip from radioshop888.com (and possible a lot of other retailers who try to best they can retail genuine parts) will find that their Mountain Lion driver will work after they upgrade to Mavericks. Now, I cannot guarantee this to everyone obviously. Too many variables. But you all have at least one guinea pig out here to put up his or her OS-X system up for grabs with an upgrade. And Mavericks if you wandered doesn't really feel different from the previous build. If you want the upgrade better have a goof fast connection, took me a while at 2.20 MB/s to download 5.29 gigs. Then it's atl east another hour and a half to install.

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '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-20131026 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #242 [Jens Jensen <kd4tjx(a)yahoo.com>] [ft-90] fixing issue with empty channels and trying to set junk data #1187

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Re: [chirp_users] Call for community support to improve VX-3 and VX-6 support.
by ki6njf＠verizon.net 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '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-20131025 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #241 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv-b5] Not in Range Issue with Broadcast FM Presets Early UV-B5 radios were shipped from the factory with disabled FM presets set to 0xFFFF. Current radios have disabled FM presets set to 0x01AF. This value is not allowed and causes a 'not in range' error. This patch considers any preset with a value greater than 0x01AE (108.0 MHz) as disabled. Bug #1191 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv-b5] Add Experimental Notice Regarding Test Mode Settings related to feature #1123 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [wouxun] Add instructions for clone mode part of feature #1163 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv-5r] Add instructions for clone mode part of feature #1163

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[chirp_users] Keyboard not working
by Lisa Soto 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi! I downloaded the LiveCD for Chirp and tried running it on my older 13" macbook. The keyboard driver doesn't load properly and I can't use the keys. Only the embedded numeric keypad seems to work at all. The delete key words, but not enter. It's pretty weird. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a fix for it? Thanks! - Lisa -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lisa Soto eris235(a)gmail.com "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[chirp_users] UV-B5 Settings issue
by Doug 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

So two issues. I am using the latest Daily with 2 new B5s that work fine. 1 - I can download from the radio.... When I do the channel tab is populated but the Settings tab is blank. If I enable Developer mode I can see data for the settings but I wouldn't want to edit it there. 2 - in the Memory (channels) tab their are 4 settings columns missing, BCL Reverse Duplex PT ID and Compander missing. That would mean that one would need to select each channel and use the right click Edit function on each channel individualy. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Doug S/V Kerberos Corsair 28R #100 Welcome to the dark side... We have cookies. Entropy all ways wins! Things fall apart, it's scientific.

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[chirp_users] BF-888 Mac problems
by Ken Kimari 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Use a Mac to program BF-888 and UV-82 radios. All works well in downloading and uploading programming to radios, however after programming the BF-888 and I shutdown CHIRP my Mac becomes unresponsive to keyboard input. Computer will not shutdown or restart. I have to do a hard shutdown on the computer to reset everything. When I program the UV-82 the computer behaves itself when I close CHIRP and I encounter no problems.

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '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-20131022 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #240 [Marco Filippi <iz3gme.marco(a)gmail.com>] [uv-b5] Add instructions for clone mode part of feature #1163

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Re: [chirp_users] Baofeng uv-5r plus not able to read from
by Tony Cratz 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

On 10/10/2013 02:18 AM, Jim Unroe wrote: > If the above isn't the problem, then I would suspect that the > programming cable is bad and needs replaced. > > Jim KC9HI I want to follow up on this thread I started. After trying to trim the orginal connector on the cable I had and trying it again, it failed. I did order a new cable which had on it the Baofeng name. It showed up Friday and last night I tried it. The cable worked with no problem what so ever. Which means the other cable I bought was bad. It was not the connector but the cable itself. Now that I have a good working cable I have been able to download from the radio and also upload to it with no problem. Chrip worked fine and I have already added some 70+ channels to my new UV-5R+. Tony

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '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-20131021 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #239 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [uv-b5] fix for proper display of STEP setting value update memory structure to define 'step' add Step setting to allow user to edit the STEP value fix for Bug #1179 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] [vx2] Add Yaesu VX-2 image for testing from Jens #833 [Jens Jensen <kd4tjx(a)yahoo.com>] [vx-3] minor fix to strip trailing spaces from bank names to pass tests & update channels from 900 to 999. #1119

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