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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '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-20180623 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #530 [Rick DeWitt <aa0rd(a)yahoo.com>] [ft450d] Add verbage for new Information prompt, issue #5891 [Rick DeWitt <aa0rd(a)yahoo.com>] [lt725uv] and variants; add Information prompt info per #5893 [Rick DeWitt <aa0rd(a)yahoo.com>] [mainapp] Add Information Prompt per #5889 This patch places the prompt after a File Open and after Radio Download [Rick DeWitt <aa0rd(a)yahoo.com>] [chirp_common] Add new Info prompt to prompt class per #5889

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[chirp_users] BAOFENG UV-8D
by Pierre 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hello, It's been over a month that I'm trying to program a BAOFENG UV-8D, I tried multiple cordosn without success, I just found one among four !! To program I put a driver for the BAOFENG UV-8D is "USB-SERIAL CH340 (COM4), the communication is perfect For the program I used UV-8 Serie Sofwarre Program and there it works there is a communication in the BAOFENG UV8D and my PC an ASUS X550L with Windows 8.1. I'm going to try more with other Walkie Talkies !! This cord, by chance only works for the UV-8D 73s Pierre F6CTB

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[chirp_users] New user and question/bug/feature
by Ed Ackerman 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

I run Centos 6.9 and I downloaded the zip file. When I go to run chirpw i get the following message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./chirpw", line 23, in <module> from chirp.drivers import * File "/home/edack/Desktop/chirp-daily-20180614/chirp/drivers/lt725uv.py", line 198, in <module> LIST_CTCSS.append("D{:03d}N".format(x)) ValueError: zero length field name in format If I go to the referened line I can and do comment out lines # Now append the DxxxN and DxxxI DTCS codes from chirp_common for x in chirp_common.DTCS_CODES: LIST_CTCSS.append("D{:03d}N".format(x)) for x in chirp_common.DTCS_CODES: LIST_CTCSS.append("D{:03d}R".format(x)) All works fine. I don't care because I dont need the lt725uv driver. I am wondering if this is a Linux only "feature", or is it just masked in the windows version? This happens in 20180614 and also in 20180611 builds I don't know about earlier versions but I do remember using a version from 2017 that did not do this. --- #include <std.disclaimer>; | select * from users Ed Ackerman | where users.clue = 1; edack(a)kengel.com | 0 rows returned

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[chirp_users] Fwd: CHIPRP AND TYT TH-9800
by Dave B 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Just replace the damaged cap's (a not an uncommon problem by the way for a system of that age!) Google for "Bad Cap problems" or "capacitor plague" Not confined to computers or motherboards only either. I've replaced several such parts on a few similar aged PC's of my own over time. If you can't physically do it, there are places that can, at a cost. If you have a Windows 7 recovery CD, and the licence numbers, just spin up a VirtualBox VM under Linux, and run Win7 in that. Job done. V-Box on some systems will allow you to use "seamless" mode, where you can have both Windows and Linux app's running on the same desktop (or looking like it at least.) Just put the Windows, or Linux Taskbar at the top of the screen, and the other at the bottom (or sides.) I used to run Linux like that on a Win 7 box, before I got utterly p'd off with Windows. Though convenient when it's working, it's a lot of egg's in one basket, and can be a bit of a task to set-up and get working "just so". It's also trivial to map Linux's /dev/ttyUSBx serial ports, to appear under Windows as COMx as well. Very well documented, and works well. If you stick with Win 10, research and find out how to hog-tie/deactivate much of it's "phone home" functionality. It's seriously leaky (potentially privacy wise) if you just activated it with the default settings it suggests. Also, if you use Cortana, configure her NOT to be active when the computer is "locked". 73. Dave G0WBX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 19/06/18 20:00, chirp_users-request(a)intrepid.danplanet.com wrote: > I had considered taking the old Win-7 computer and setting it up?.. but the reason for the Win-10 upgrade is because when I dusted out the Win-7 box last month, I noticed a couple of electrolytic caps on the mother board were swelling. A sure sign of future failure. We?ll just let it go, it is like 8 years old anyway. -- Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software. ::

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[chirp_users] Fwd: I thought you'd all find this very interesting. Pass it on to all interested
by Shon Edwards 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Please forgive me...I know this is way off topic, but thought some of you hams out there might be a little bit interested in this. I was messing around this afternoon and calculated the percentage of per capita hams are each state in the USA and found a couple of interesting international numbers, as well. Population estimates come from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_popula… and are for 1 July 2017. FCC license totals come from the www.arrl.org site here: http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts and are as current as yesterday. 73 de Shon, K6QT k6qt(a)arrl.net Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic) Amateur call: K6QT 1039 N 2575 W Layton, UT, 84041-7709 USA Home phone: (801) 444-3445 E-mail: sre.1966(a)gmail.com or Shon Edwards 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd. Bedford, WY 83112 Cell: (307) 248-2104 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shon Edwards <sre.1966(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:29 PM Subject: Fwd: I thought you'd all find this very interesting. Pass it on to all interested To: Shon Edwards <sre.1966(a)gmail.com> Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic) Amateur call: K6QT 1039 N 2575 W Layton, UT, 84041-7709 USA Home phone: (801) 444-3445 E-mail: sre.1966(a)gmail.com or Shon Edwards 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd. Bedford, WY 83112 Cell: (307) 248-2104 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shon Edwards <sre.1966(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:28 PM Subject: I thought you'd all find this very interesting. Pass it on to all interested To: David and Ethel Oswald <oswald4159(a)gmail.com>, David Oswald < oswalddb(a)familysearch.org>, James Edwards <james.edwards.1998(a)gmail.com>, Jared Edwards <jared.edwards.2001(a)gmail.com>, Seth Edwards < seth.edwards.2001(a)gmail.com>, Isaac Edwards <isaac.edwards.2002(a)gmail.com>, Brynia Edwards <brynia.edwards.2004(a)gmail.com>, Bob Niedergerke < bob.niedergerke(a)gmail.com>, Steve Whitehead <nv7v(a)nv7v.org>, Mike Groves < kd7mg(a)arrl.org>, kd7mg(a)arrl.net Been feeling well enough to sit today, so I have been looking at per capita percentages of ham operators around the world. Country per capita hams are: 1. Japan 2. Slovenia 3. Taiwan 4. South Korea 5. Thailand Sheer numbers, most hams in the world: 1. United States 2. Japan 3. Thailand 4. Germany 5. Canada Data taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_operator. Using some population sites for the US and the ARRL site to get the total number of hams in the US (and using Jimmy to figure out the blasted math in Excel!), I came up with a %-age of hams per state in the US, which I'm attaching. It's interesting to see the highest per capita hams in which states. Most of the states are .37% and down. Utah is the highest with .56%. Next highest is Idaho with .50%, Alaska with .48%, Oregon, .47%, Washington, .45%, New Hampshire, .41%, and the rest under .37%. The lowest are DC, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, Illinois. Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic) Amateur call: K6QT 1039 N 2575 W Layton, UT, 84041-7709 USA Home phone: (801) 444-3445 E-mail: k6qt(a)arrl.net E-mail: sre.1966(a)gmail.com or Shon Edwards 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd. Bedford, WY 83112 Cell: (307) 248-2104

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[chirp_users] UV-5R
by Dennis Wage 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

I have 3 UV-5R's All three of them need their own *.img file because they have different firmwares. They are all programmed with same channels and settings and all work fairly well for what I need. However, believe it or not, one of them WILL NOT work with my J-Pole antenna. When I say 'will not work' I mean I can't hit any of the repeaters I normally use. It works perfectly, in fact really well with supplied antenna and with my dual band home made ground plane. With my MFJ power meter it also shows a full watt more output power than the other 2? Is there anything in my programming the phone that could cause this? Thanks, 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] Letter Subcribes
by Nhan Ha 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Dear Mr Dan Smith Hello Team Danplanet I'm Nhan and I come from to VietNam. I have registered an account on chirp.danplanet.com but I'm not sign in although I entered the characters correctly Email sign up: nhannobel(a)outlook.com User: nhannobel I tried recover password via mail but unsuccessful. Thank you for your consideration Yours sincerely ________________________________ Nhan Ha Web Designer and Marketer Mobile +84 911330808

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[chirp_users] DCS problem on BTECH UVX2-50
by Jean-Charles HUILLIER 17 Jun '18

17 Jun '18

Hello all, This is not stricly Chirp related but I need you help on programming my radios with selective DCS. I use the radios in a car racing team and I need to be abe to talk to this car or that car but also to all the cars at the same time. I have made a setup which runs fine to speak to each car individualy but I can't talk to all of them at the same time, here's what I did. Same frequency for all channels DCS RX specific to each car (X for car 1, Y for car 2, etc.....) No DCS TX on the cars radios so that when the driver speaks everyone car hear it (except the other cars of course) I made several channels on the pit radios with a matching DCS TX for car 1, car 2 and no DCS at all to be able to talk to the other pits radios) I'd like to make a new DCS RX on all cars (200) so that I could talk to ALL cars at the same time but when I program it on the cars radios it does not work, the car does not receive it. I made a dual watch so that the car receiving radio should switch from the "this car only" channel to the "all cars channel" but somehow it does not receive. What did I do wrong ? Thanks for the help

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 17 Jun '18

17 Jun '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-20180614 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #529 [Rick DeWitt <aa0rd(a)yahoo.com>] [ft450d] Add new driver for Yaesu FT-450D. Fixes issue #0951

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[chirp_users] Unable to create Chirp "account" (to get technical help)
by Dave B 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi. What's up with the "Register" page on the main Chirp site? https://chirp.danplanet.com/account/register I've just tried three times to register, and each time it bombs with unknown user or password when I'm invited to login, after it tell's me I successfuly created an account. There is no mention of needing to wait for any acceptance.. The password reset link (when invoked) comes to me, and shows my as requested login "username" just fine. The new password is accepted OK with no errors, but the resulting new login fails. The requirements for the "password" are listed as:- / Must be at least 4 characters long. /(Is that all?)/ / I tend to use much more than that (12 in this case) so is that the problem? Upper/Lower case letters and numbers. I'm doing this using FireFox from the UK, it's not a GDPR blockage for non US users it is? What else might be wrong? Comments? 73. Dave B. PS: Where are the rig "driver" files stored, on a Linux system? I can find the chirpw file OK, but have no idea where the rest are. (I want to look at the code for a problematic radio I have.) ><

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