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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

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-20160818 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #425 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add test image for Baofeng UV-6R Related to #2761 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-6R] Add Support for Baofeng UV-6R This driver adds support for the Baofeng UV-6R handheld radio. related to #2761 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-6R] Add Baofeng Common Driver This driver is being added in preparaton for adding Baofeng UV-6R support. It contains common functions that will be used for new Baofeng (and similar) handheld radios. related to #2761

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Re: [chirp_users] Programming cables
by kc6iih 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Try RTSystems.com Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab®|PRO -------- Original message -------- From: Jardy via chirp_users <chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> Date:08/17/2016 2:22 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Programming cables Try EBay. Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Sent from the Death Star for Darth Vader's eyes only. Any other reception will be severely punished. 💀 > On Aug 17, 2016, at 13:40, w4rss(a)radioclub.org wrote: > > > Anyone have a source for a programming cable for the Icom IC-880h? > > Thanks, > Dick > W4RSS > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Jardy at jardy72(a)yahoo.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Jock at kc6iih(a)aol.com To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com

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Re: [chirp_users] Programming cables
by John 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

On 8/17/2016 7:04 PM, Richard B. Emerson wrote: > As with anything, know who you're buying from. I met Valley Enterprises > via eBay, where they have a virtual store. I'm pleased with the FTDI > cable they sold me via eBay. > > 73 de KC3DOO > Rick I, too, am a satisfied Valley Enterprises customer. After buying a Chinese cable from eBay to program my Kenwood HT and having it not work, I bought the Valley Enterprises cable and it worked just fine... -- 73 K2LRA - John

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[chirp_users] Kenwood NX329
by beachwoodpeter＠gmail.com 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Any chance someone will add the Kenwood NX series radios? Like the NX320. Peter Wilcox Beachwood Productions Beachwoodproductions.com > On Jul 7, 2016, at 12:16 PM, William Thompson via chirp_users <chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote: > > I'm helping a friend program his new Baofeng BF-F0V2+ and n we're receiving a "experimental firmware error". Has a version been released for this radio? > > 73, > Bill > KK4ZIU > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Peter at beachwoodpeter(a)gmail.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

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-20160816 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #424 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Add Support for UV-6 with Longer 12 byte Ident The currently shipping Baofeng UV-6 responds to the clone request by returning a 12 byte "ident". The original model replies with an 8 byte "ident" (the same as all other radios currently supported by the uv5r.py driver). The current CHIRP driver appends the radio's memory image after the "ident" so the settings structures are all offset by 8 bytes to accomodate these extra bytes at the beginning of the image. So there must alway be exactly 8 bytes prepended to the actual memory map data. Original UV-6 ident: AA 36 74 04 00 05 20 DD New UV-6 ident: AA 01 01 36 01 74 01 04 00 05 20 DD This patch works around the issue by doing the following... 1. The "ident" is now read one byte at a time until the last byte ("\xdd") is received. This make it compatible with an 8 byte and 12 byte "ident". 2. The 4 bytes of the ident containing "\x01" are discarded to shorten the ident to the standard 8 byte length and to put the "ident" in the same format as the "ident" of the other radio models. Related to Bug #3063

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[chirp_users] New member with a couple questions
by Glenn 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Hi, My name is Glenn, I live in Nebraska. I have a UV-5R, and my son has a BF 8HP by Baofeng. I should mention that I am using Chirp on computers with a screenreader for the visually impaired. One computer is running Windows 7, and the other is running Ubuntu 16.04. I tried to connect the BF8HHP to my Ubuntu with the hopes of uploading all my programming from my 5R to it, and I keep getting the message: an error has occurred failure to communicate with radio serial object has no attribute 'setTimeout' I am using USB0 with a Baofeng cable. So with this issue, I switched to doing this on my Windows computer, but I don't like that much, because it is quite difficult using the program with a screenreader in Windows. But I successfully exported my 5R to a CSV file. Then I connected the 8HP and imported the 5R file, and then tried to upload it to the 8HP, and in the radio list, the make and model selections are grayed out, and it only shows the UV-5R. I tried to proceed with the upload anyway, but it would not let me. This is the steps for this procedure in the on-line help, even for two different radios. Maybe I missed something? Thanks for any assistance. Glenn

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Re: [chirp_users] UV-82, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, can't connect...
by Angus Ainslie 13 Aug '16

13 Aug '16

On 2016-08-06 08:09, David McGuire wrote: > python-serial: > Installed: 3.0.1-1 > Candidate: 3.0.1-1 > Version table: > *** 3.0.1-1 500 > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 > Packages > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 > Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > Please reply all when asking questions in the list That looks correct as well but chirp had an issue with pySerial v3 http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/3167 So it looks like you need to update chirp

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 13 Aug '16

13 Aug '16

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-20160813 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #423 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [RadioReference] Fix Chirp crash on empty scName attribute. #881

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[chirp_users] Kenwood TK-762H
by Tim Billingsley 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

I have a couple of old Kenwood TK-762H transceivers. I see the issue on http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/3139 but I seem to be having troubles. When I attempt to read from the radio using TK-762G it appears to read from the radio then dumps the error dialog *"An error has occurred: The radio doesn't accept program mode"* ERROR: -- Exception: -- ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/ui/clone.py", line 238, in run self.__radio.sync_in() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760g.py", line 884, in sync_in self._mmap = do_download(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760g.py", line 517, in do_download _open_radio(radio, status) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760g.py", line 478, in _open_radio raise errors.RadioError("The radio doesn't accept program mode") RadioError: The radio doesn't accept program mode ERROR: ---------------- ERROR: Clone failed: The radio doesn't accept program mode ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: The radio doesn't accept program mode --- ERROR: None ERROR: ---------------------------- If I attempt using TK-760 chirp attmpts to read and almost immediately dumps the error dialog saying *"An error has occurred Radio refuse to enter into program mode after a few tries"* ERROR: ---------------------------- ERROR: -- Exception: -- ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/ui/clone.py", line 238, in run self.__radio.sync_in() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760.py", line 411, in sync_in self._mmap = do_download(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760.py", line 255, in do_download open_radio(radio) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/drivers/tk760.py", line 227, in open_radio raise errors.RadioError(msg) RadioError: Radio refuse to enter into program mode after a few tries ERROR: ---------------- ERROR: Clone failed: Radio refuse to enter into program mode after a few tries ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: Radio refuse to enter into program mode after a few tries --- ERROR: None ERROR: ---------------------------- FWIW I am running CPU~Dual core AMD E2-1800 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) speed~1700 MHz (max) Kernel~4.2.0-34-generic i686 Mem~2035.9/3635.1MB HDD~750.2GB(35.9% used) Ubuntu 15.10 CHIRP daily-20160513 GTK 2.24.28 PyGTK 2.24.0 Python 2.7.10 I am also having issues with a QTY KT8900 I have tried to follow all this has been discussed on http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/2673 but to no avail. any assistance is appreciated

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[chirp_users] General: Updating CHIRP
by Richard B. Emerson 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

How are non-alpha/beta updates handled? That is, given all the daily releases (i.e., alpha testing), is there ever a "looks pretty stable to me" release? What I've got now does what I need done (very well - good on ya!). OTOH, a new release might do something useful that I don't have in the release I use. But I prefer not to do alpha or beta testing if I can avoid it. So... how often does a stable release come out? 73 de KC3DOO Rick

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