March 2019 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

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-20190312 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #570 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add Ansoko and Greaval radio aliases Fixes #6593 Fixes #6595

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[chirp_users] New Python coming?
by Patty Winter 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Does anyone know whether Dan is working on a new version of Python to run CHIRP on Macs? I just got the warming about the current version not working when the next release of macOS comes out. I see some 64-bit versions of Python from Apple installed on my Mac, but the installation instructions for CHIRP specifically say to use Dan's Python, which is only 32 bits. Patty N6BIS

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

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-20190311 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #569 [DanClemmensen <DanClemmensen(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] add progress bar cleanly [#6573] add the bar but without the gratuitous change to run_tests ;-)

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

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-20190309 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #568 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Move http_user_agent to chirp_common and fix a stupid bug This needs to be somewhere other than __init__.py because we overwrite that as part of the win32 build, so just put it in chirp_common. Related to #6563 [DanClemmensen <DanClemmensen(a)gmail.com>] [ft4] correct frequency scale factor for FT-65 [#6577] [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Set the urllib user-agent string to something chirp-specific Yes, this is the crazy way you have to do this for the OG urllib, but it works in our favor here to just make sure everything is using the right thing. Obviously we need to move this code to requests at some point, but since repeaterbook just broke us with the cloudflare change, this is a point fix for a current issue. Fixes #6563

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[chirp_users] Chirp updates
by Skip 09 Mar '19

09 Mar '19

I have been getting numerous Chirp emails that I don’t really need. If I unsubscribe will I still receive Chirp software update notices? KS5KIP Skip

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[chirp_users] Repeaterbook _ Unknown File Format
by Mick S. 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Greetings, First time Chirp user here.. was looking to program local repeaters into my BF-F8HP and made it all the way to the Repeaterbook Query. After exceuting the query I get an "Unknown file format" error. I tried to research this under the issues and found it is an new issue with Repeaterbook changing to cloudfare. It looked like there may be some suggested work arounds, but they were way over my head. Is there something I can do to fix, or is this an issue to get fixed/patched in the future? Thank you very much for helping a totally confused new user. Mick

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[chirp_users] New Python coming?
by IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

List members, Let us refocus back into reality and remember why this is happening instead of whining like a bunch of kindergartners (or millennials). First, it is instructive that the official annunciation of the forthcoming deprecation of Python 2 (2.7) in 2020 came on 03 NOV 2008, as instantiated by the link provided as follows hereupon. Moreover, this was an EXTENSION of the previously expected deprecation target of 2015. https://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ The foregoing notwithstanding, large swaths of developers have either chosen a strategy of ignoring this issue at the peril of themselves and ostensibly the users of their code, or intend to substantiate one of the following alternatives: a) Pay someone to maintain Python 2 for them (it is open source) b) Download and self maintain Python 2 (again it is open source code) c) Do nothing and hope nothing breaks Of course the wisdom of moving to Python 3 is the solution which is expected by the developers of Python and the impeller for Apple Corp to no longer make Python 2 a part of their operating system's default software amalgam. Apple is merely dropping support for Python 2 because the developers of Python are dropping support for Python 2. However, we are wise to again remember that the annunciation of a dropping of support for Python 2 by the Python project was made long, long, ago and should have surely been the cause of migration to Python 3 by developers using Python 2, but alas, that has not occurred in many cases (not just in the instant case of Chirp). Whilst I have great respect for Dan and appreciate and think very highly of Chirp and its capabilities, a development plan for migrating it to Python 3 (in my opinion granted, which you are welcome to ignore or discount) should have occurred many, many, many moons ago. For now, my suggested solution is to install VirtualBox on macOS (VirtualBox is free in cost and is open source, hence also free as in freedom) and install a distribution of Linux that is inclusive of Python 2.7 there within. You could choose to not update Python 2.7 (or uninstall it), and use Chirp in such an environment indefinitely. This solution has no monetary cost and would allow those interested parties to persistently use Chirp on a Macintosh via this virtualized environment. Moreover, I own a Macbook Pro that has VirtualBox already installed thereupon and will likely test this myself in the near future (I am thinking a CentOS minimum install with Python 2.7 and its requisite moving parts to make the current Chirp variant work). Very Respectfully, Stuart B. Tener Computer Scientist / FCC Licensed Radio Operator -- IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR, N3GWG (Extra), MROP Las Vegas, NV / Philadelphia, PA / Beverly Hills, CA (310) 358-0202 Mobile Phone (215) 338-6005 Google Voice

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[chirp_users] Leixen programming banks
by Neil B 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Having seen a few post about the 898, i have downloaded the latest version just. i have a 898s. reading the radio, the memory orders are still wrong and each entry is duplicated. and there is no bank one or bank 2 either. early last year i had a py module to load first, this does give me the banks but its bit unreliable. one issue there is when i save the read data to chirp img, when i reopen it, its for a diferent radio header. any update on this pls.

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[chirp_users] Programming liexen vv898 problem
by Chris, M0XRS 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

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[chirp_users] BF-F8HP with BTECH PC03 FTDI - I get "experimental driver" warning
by Gary Fara 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Hello - please help, I try to use CHIRP to program a new Baofeng BF-F8HP and I receive this warning: "This radio's driver is experimental. Do you want to proceed?" "Due to the fact that the manufacturer continues to release new versions of the firmware with obscure and hard-to-track changes, this driver may not work with your device. Thus far and to the best knowledge of the author, no UV-5R radios have been harmed by using CHIRP. However, proceed at your own risk!" I am using this cable: BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HUB0ONK/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00… I am programming this radio: BaoFeng BF-F8HP (UV-5R 3rd Gen) 8-Watt Dual Band Two-Way Radio (136-174Mhz VHF & 400-520Mhz UHF) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MAULSOK/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00… I've used CHIRP before to program 4 UV5R radios with a different cable. What is wrong? How can I use CHIRP? Thank you, Gary

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