December 2013 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] AnyTone-AT-5888-UV & new HamTech licensee
by Allen Shine 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Many thanks for the CHIRP Program, and some great CHIRP e-mail suggestions, I'm all programmed and, surprisingly, communicating with other hams...Lotta fun! (note, I tried, and didn't have much success using the AT programming software)...being able to cut & paste is great!)...yes, I played the "port" game & finally won! *Question*: *will CHIRP eventually be able to program AnyTone radio settings ?*...just asking. Also, thanks for the *ease of using* CHIRP to program my BaoFeng UV-5R+ radios. (used in SAR) *Thanks again, for all you guys at CHIRP...and all you do for us newbies!Al ... "Ham" since October, 2013 ... KK6HLR...*& luving it!

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[chirp_users] Regarding UV5R (F-11) and TDR Priority
by Milton Hywatt 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

I know this is straying off topic but as usual I'm off topic anyway...heh But considering the popularity of this radio and using Chirp with it I thought I'd make a brief comment. With Set menu item #34 TDR AB setting it to OFF when switched it gives you a split second to tune the inactive display and tune it be it VFO or channel mode. If set to either A or B, it is impossible to go from the priority A or B when active to the other non-priority display. One example: if VFO A is on a constant signal like the NWS 162.400 but you want to switch to and tune VFO B you have a half a second before the focus switches back to A. As long as you keep tuning the focus will be B. As soon as you stop it jumps back to A. This is in the #34 menu TDR AB = OFF menu. But now way you can tune the other display if the priority is given to the opposite display.

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[chirp_users] Programming PL into UV-5R
by scott richardson 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hey guys. I need a little help getting a PL into a frequency. Here is the frequency I want to do this on. Frequency- 154.78500 Type-RM Tone-465 DPL All my information came from Radiorefence.com . I'm not interested in transmitting just receiving. Any help would be appreciated.

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[chirp_users] Chirp and a blind interface
by Mike Agner 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Tonight, eric oyen wrote: ===================== <snip> Now, there are a few radios that a blind user can program without the program (like the ken wood ?-D700 or any other radio with a speech interface. Unfortunately, most of the chinese radios only speak the top level menu items, leaving us blind hams to have to read the instructions multiple times and try to follow them and hope we get it right. I would certainly like a way to return the firmware to make this more possible (and dump the chinese language speaking interface while at it). Not sure this can be done, but it would be a worthy project to undertake. ==================== Unfortunately this isn't possible in CHIRP or any other consumer software. It would take rewriting the firmware (and in your case, changing the speech interface) to make the radio do what you want, and I doubt seriously there are many that have that ability. Mike --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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

04 Dec '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-20131204 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #250 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix a bug in checkpatch for non-tip revisions Related to the idea from #1277 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Revert changeset 5c7032c3 This was causing a failure in the IC-Q7A driver. Related to #1273 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Revert changeset 19a873724b4d This is causing the FT-60 tests to fail. Related to #1273 [Jens Jensen <kd4tjx(a)yahoo.com>] [uvb5] move from list of known acks to using first ack received throughout download session #1281 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [KG-UV6D] Update ANI Code Setting for Greater Flexibility Update the ANI Code setting to allow a variable length code and use of all 16 DTMF signal tones. #1283 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add top-level test script This runs our unit tests, driver tests, and style checks. Had this idea after the patch for #1277 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add tools/checkpatch.sh for style compliance checking This adds tools/checkpatch.sh which checks a given HG revision for style compliance. We should call this as part of our tests, have Jenkins call it, and keep it full of things we'd like to enforce. Developers should run this on their patches (when possible) before submitting. Had this idea after the patch for #1277

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

03 Dec '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-20131203 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #249 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] Show clone/live radio type in model support matrix. #1279 [Jens Jensen <kd4tjx(a)yahoo.com>] [bj-uv55] expose power calibrations in memory map, #1201 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix up line wrapping in previous patch for documentation links Related to #1277 [Robert Terzi <rct(a)r-t.org>] Chirp help menu should have a link to documentation on the wiki. Fixes #1277

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[chirp_users] Baofeng
by GaryErrol 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Can anyone confirm that I can program a Baofeng BF-658 using CHIRP under th BF-888S radio type? Gary N9PTC

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Re: [chirp_users] Clone/Live radio mode support in CHIRP
by Mike Agner 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Tonight, dsmith wrote: ========================= <snip> Note that the support chart is really not meant for end-users, but could definitely be used by documentation writers to ensure that what they write matches the code. ======================== To me, from a newcomer's perspective, this is a serious issue. Picture someone picking up a radio for the first time (never had one of these in their lives), and they come across this table from the link in the wiki. How are they supposed to understand all that without some sort of legend? As a certain pointed eared Starfleet officer would say, that's illogical. There's nothing to suggest floating a mouse over anything for a description. Perhaps that should be added to the sentence that introduces this table as an explanation. It would be better than nothing. I was thinking of pointing to this table in the individual radio articles so a newcomer could find out the basics about the radio - including whether this radio supported clone, live or file (what is that?) processing for updating their radio's memories. And since it's updated with each build, maintenance would be a snap. Now I'm not so sure that's the best way to go here. Mike --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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Re: [chirp_users] Clone/Live radio mode support in CHIRP
by Mike Agner 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Today, Tom Hayward wrote: ======================= It's this page, where we list all the other per-radio capabilities: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/Model_Support.html This is generated automatically as part of the build, so there's zero maintenance effort required. If you were to generate your wiki pages programatically from a template, you could source the clone/live status the same way I do to generate this page (see code in share/make_supported.py). ======================= Tom it's obvious that you put a heckuva lot of work in putting this together, but I'm afraid there's one fly in the ointment (only one?? hi) The MODE column says 'Yes/No'. While it might be very obvious to experienced CHIRP folks, it's nowhere near explanatory without some sort of legend. Does 'Yes' mean 'Clone' while 'No' mean 'Live'? In fact looking at that table, there are a few columns there whose meaning is not obvious. Might I suggest a legend to describe some of these terms? Mike --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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[chirp_users] Clone/Live radio mode support in CHIRP
by Mike Agner 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Today, Tom Hayward wrote; ================================= I just submitted a patch to add this detail to the model support matrix. http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2013-December/001969.ht… Is that what you needed? ================================= To be honest Tom I don't know - this is rather a bit of Greek to me. What is the 'model support matrix'? I was going to put a table in the CHIRP wiki to document this, but if it's going into the software itself, that's a different issue. It would likely just add more of a maintenance headache to put it into both places, which I'm sure the developers would want to avoid. Are you talking about the list of supported radios on the first page of the wiki? It's almost certain a newcomer would need to know this detail. Thanks...Mike --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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