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[chirp_users] Programming Both sides w/ PL/DPL
by Richard Gaun 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Hey everyone, I have tried everything I can think of to put a DTCS on both sides of the radio, TX & RX and have had no luck. Could one of you folks zip me off the settings for that programming or send me in the right direction for them. Thanks! Rich Gaun KG7ETW +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Richard P Gaun, III P.O. Box 382 Youngtown, Arizona 85363 Cell & Text 480-273-3755 The information contained within the referenced, linked, or directed email communication is intended to be a confidential communication between the original sender and recipient(s), and is to be treated as confidential. Any and all works, ideas, or copy within are not to be used in any manner other by which they were intended. If you believe you have received this or any other email in error, please contact me at the above email. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[chirp_users] Tone squelch QYT KT-7900D
by Ton Machielsen 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Hi all! New member of the list, new user of Chirp and new user of the QYT KT-7900D. Before i received my KT-7900D i read "somewhere" on the internet that a user of this radio had the issue that he can only hear what is happening on the air when he uses the Monitor. Scanning stops whenever there is a signal, but the squelch doesn't open. I thought it had something to do with the radio expecting a receive tone as well to get open the squelch, but i'm not sure what exactly he did to fix this. Was that on this list? I have the same issue. Ton.

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[chirp_users] chirp on Chromebook
by Jerry 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

Ay of you running C Are any of you running chirp on a recent Chromebook?. All the searching I've done brings up results from a year or more ago. I'm assuming that installing some version of wine is still the way to go. Suggestions on how to proceed greatly appreciated. -- Jerry R W7JER

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[chirp_users] KG-UV8D settings programming
by N7TZK 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

I recently acquired a KG-UV8D radio. It has v1.05 firmware. It seems to read the info on the "Settings" tab OK... but changes I make there don't stick. If I edit them, save the file, and then re-open the file, it has reverted to the previous settings. I haven't tested all of those settings, but that is true specifically for the Display Message and ANI code in Key Settings, as well the channel in the VFO x Settings. I have a KG-UV6D radio and I haven't run into this issue with it, so I presume this is specific to CHIRP's support for this particular model. When I first tried this, I was running the 20180614 release, but I installed the latest 20181018 release with same result. Ideas? Dave

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[chirp_users] Wrong Kenwood radio, ID or unknown variant
by Gene Vincent 26 Oct '18

26 Oct '18

Kenwood 372G error using 6/17 driver. Another driver was created earlier this year, 5/18. That driver seemed to work when added as a temporary patch. I don't know if the new driver was completely verified by anyone. I also cannot find where the working one was ever made part of the daily build. Any help would be appreciated

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Re: [chirp_users] Tone squelch QYT KT-7900D
by wcurlew＠juno.com 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

FYI, I use several QYT qyt 7900D radios with chirp and have no issues with them. The scanning should not stop unless there is no tone required, or the correct tone is there, I would double check the sql level programmed and the other parms. Bill ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Ton Machielsen <ton(a)machielsen.net> To: chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: [chirp_users] Tone squelch QYT KT-7900D Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:30:55 -0700 Hi all! New member of the list, new user of Chirp and new user of the QYT KT-7900D. Before i received my KT-7900D i read "somewhere" on the internet that a user of this radio had the issue that he can only hear what is happening on the air when he uses the Monitor. Scanning stops whenever there is a signal, but the squelch doesn't open. I thought it had something to do with the radio expecting a receive tone as well to get open the squelch, but i'm not sure what exactly he did to fix this.Was that on this list? I have the same issue. Ton. ____________________________________________________________ The IRS Will Hate These 47 Passive Income Secrets lifetime-income-report.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5bd099eee081119ee7410st02vuc

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[chirp_users] Channel Naming
by Dennis Wage 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

This is just a FYI from me. Most radios have a minimum of 6 character display for memory. Here is my naming convention. Digits 1 and 2 are the county. Digits 3 and 4 are the city. Digit 5 is U(hf) or V(hf) Digit 6 is Numeric 1-9 for instances of more multiple repeaters in a city. When you have multiple dozens of repeater channels this quickly helps you see which is which. Here are the first group of channels in my radio. DANAV1 DANAV2 DANAV3 DANAU1 DANAU2 DANAU3 DAPAU1 Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ) 245 Corum Hill Road Castalian Springs, TN 37031 (615) 310-4242 Cell (615) 562-5128 Home http://hammondb3organ.net http://overdubs.net

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

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-20181018 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #540 [pk.delf] [BF-T1] FIX range for limmit setting Fixes #6165 [Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <pavelmc(a)gmail.com>] [PATCH][btech.py] Fingerprint for a new variant of QYT KT8900D on the wild, fixes #6139 A new variant of the QYT KT8900D is detected on the wild, with a new fingerprint of "VC8632", tested and working ok. Related (duplicates) issue #6037.

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[chirp_users] Great job!!
by clayton_k4qm＠sc.rr.com 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

I just used Chiro for the first time with my Yaesu VX-170. After a few false starts, it took off and read the radio. I did a few tweeeks to the data and had to carefully read the info to get it to write back to the radio. Once all the right button were pressed it wrote my data back to the radio. I'll be sure to use chirp and will not be a novice too much longer. Thanks for a good program guys. Clayton K4QM

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Re: [chirp_users] Wouxun KG-UV3D
by w4grj 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

I programmed my kg-uv3d using chirp a couple years ago Current version Chirp does not list KG-UV3D, tried all listed under Wouxun but none worked. Is there a earlier chirp version that lists KG-UV3D? Thanks, Jack W4GRJ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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[chirp_users] Export
by Christopher F. Beesley 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi Dennis, That's pretty much what I do with the Puxing 888. Simplex and repeaters in two groups, RAYNET frequencies in a third. I did the same with a dual-band Baofung I owned at one time, lots of memories needed, plus more groups for CTCSS tones! I don't like it when other Chirp users ask why anyone wants to do it differently to the way they do it, thus suggesting that their way is the only way to save and retrieve data to and from a radio, and then not answering the question anyway! Its a long time since I did it, but my recollection is that for a CSV file any unused cells should, upon downloading from the radio, appear as just a single terminating comma, probably resulting in many long strings of commas. So new data can be entered in between the commas, but one would have to be sure they were the correct two commas. I'd be tempted to do it in Excel or similar, where the unused cells would appear as blank cells, all ready for the filling-up of by the enthusiastic radio amateur. The Excel data would have to be converted back to a CSV file before uploading to the radio. Hope this is of some use to somebody! If not it doesn't really matter, I wasn't doing anything else... Cheers all, Chris, Staffordshire, UK

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Re: [chirp_users] Export
by nigel＠ngunn.net 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Set Chirp to display empty chanels before export? But why would you need to? Sent from my MetroPCS 4G LTE Android device ------ Original message------From: Dennis WageDate: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 11:43To: Discussion of CHIRP;Cc: Subject:[chirp_users] Export Is there a way to export empty channels to the CSV file? Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ) 245 Corum Hill Road Castalian Springs, TN 37031 (615) 310-4242 Cell (615) 562-5128 Home http://hammondb3organ.net http://overdubs.net

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[chirp_users] Export
by Dennis Wage 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Is there a way to export empty channels to the CSV file? Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ) 245 Corum Hill Road Castalian Springs, TN 37031 (615) 310-4242 Cell (615) 562-5128 Home http://hammondb3organ.net http://overdubs.net

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[chirp_users] Downloading CTCSS codes to a Baofeng GT-3TP
by Calum Abernethy 19 Oct '18

19 Oct '18

I am new to this so please treat me gently.... Is it possible to download CTCss codes to a Baofeng GT-3TP handset? The file format I get via CHIRP does not include this column. Cheers Calum

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[chirp_users] Programming a Baofeng
by stickboy72 C 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

How do I edit the frequencies manually? I want to add frequencies that are not in repeater book. Also, I want to program for both 2M and 70 cm. How can I put both on? It appears to only let me program one band.

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[chirp_users] Kenwood TH-D72
by Brandon Clark 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Hello group, I'm having trouble programming my Kenwood TH-D72 Ht. I have a feeling I'm missing something really obvious, so I apologize if this is a stupid question: In Chirp there are options to work with the radio in "Clone Mode" and "Live Mode". Trying to read from the radio in live mode doesn't yield any results. Also, I don't know what I would do to put the radio into clone mode; I can't find anything in the manual about that. What am I missing? System: Windows 10, current version of Chirp. The system has the virtual com port driver from Kenwood installed. Also, I CAN read from the radio using the Kenwood MCP-4A software. I'm trying to use chirp though because I can't import a CSV into the MCP-4A program (the only option is a TravelPlus csv file, and I don't have an example of that format). Many thanks, Brandon, KL7BSC

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

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-20181014 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #539 [Declan Rieb <wd5eqy(a)arrl.net>] [ft2d, ft1d] Fix Yaesu FT2D DTMF memory access. Fixes #6149 DTMF memories are at 0x094a in FT2D. FT-1D has data at 0x0e4a. I have only minimally tested the FT-1D, but there should be no difference. #6149 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [RT22] Add additional ident string to Retevis RT22 driver add detection for newly discovered identification string fixes #6147

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

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-20181009 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #538 [Brian R. Gaeke <brg(a)dgate.org>] Add required package list for openSUSE. Fixes #6093 This list of required packages was tested against an openSUSE 42.3 system. Fixes #6093 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Fix style issues with the previous patch Related to #5167 [Declan Rieb <wd5eqy(a)arrl.net>] [ft1d] Prevent failure when radio-preset entry is in banks. Fixes #5167 Error was first described in Yaesu FT2D and exists in FT-1D. Radios can be manually configured to use preset frequencies. CHIRP will now ignore such entries; CHIRP cannot change but will LOG.warn them. #5167

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[chirp_users] Newbie question.
by clayton_k4qm＠sc.rr.com 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

I am very new to this program and am using Linux Mint. Could some one advise me how to set up the comm port? I tried to set up dialout with my user name but for some reason, didn't take Thanks Clayton K4QM

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[chirp_users] Fw: Bug#4857 status
by William Thompson 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

________________________________ From: William Thompson Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 2:12 PM To: chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Bug#4857 status What is the status of Bug # 4857? I'm experiencing the same problem w/daily build 20180906. Regards, Bill KK4ZIU

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