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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 31 May '16

31 May '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-20160531 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #405 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [ui] Change clipboard target to support cross-process copy/paste on Windows. #3693 Clipboard target was PRIMARY, the X clipboard. Changed to CLIPBOARD, the default clipboard, for better Windows support including the ability to copy/paste between multiple instances of Chirp. http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2016-May/004018.html [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [ui] Store clipboard outside of app, so paste works after quitting. #3691 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [ui] Deprecate .chirp file format by disabling export. #3689 The .chirp file format provides no additional features compared to .CSV and is therefore redundant. .chirp is the more complex and less frequently used format of the two, so to eliminate the redundancy it should be deprecated. This patch removes the ability to export as .chirp, leaving no way to generate new .chirp files. It preserves the ability to open and import .chirp files, so any existing .chirp files can still be opened, edited, and exported to other formats.

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[chirp_users] win 10
by William Coleman 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hi everyone ! Just a quick note. I have the latest release version of chirp working OK with Windows 10 64bit on my desktop . There have been no issues so far with chirp while running windows 10 with either reading or transferring data to and from my GT-5 . I had to roll back the 3.6 driver to 3.2.2.0 that windows had initially installed . It was giving me a cannot start device error message. Once I rolled back the drivers there was no further issues. Will C. KF7SSF

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[chirp_users] TYT th-9800 Memory
by Daniel Chater 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hello all, I am having huge issue using Chirp in windows 10 so I have installed chirp on a Ubuntu and i worked first time first try. I bought the TYT because it is a quad band and I wanted this to be a mobile that I could use as a house rig as well. The only thing I cannot figure out is that the TH-9800 has a 800 channel Memory but all i am getting is 25 total. Can someone tell me what I have to do to add additional memories and Bands? -- 73, Dan ve3zxs http://www.callsign.ca/ind.php

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[chirp_users] New dev driver with a new variant of the QYT KT-8900R
by Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) 30 May '16

30 May '16

Hi to all, Attached is a dev driver for the btech's radio series for your consideration, it has support for a recently discovered version of the QYT KT-8900R. As I don't have this radio I need your help to validate this solution before pushing it into Chirp. Al the bits shows that the initial support for the QYT KT-8900R in Chirp was for a Generation 2 of this radios, now the recently found variant is for the 1st generation of this radios. Please test it if you have a QYT KT-8900R that was not recognized by Chirp after it's addition, all the success/failure stories are welcomed (the failure are more appreciated if come with the debug.log file) To try it you must follow this steps: 1. save the "btech.py" file attached to this post to where you keep your chirp radio image files 2. click "Help" 3. enable "Enable Developer Functions" 4. click "File" 5. click "Load Module" 6. find and load the "btech.py" file that was saved in step 1 *Note:* This special test module only temporarily changes your CHIRP. You must load this module every time you load CHIRP. Remember that this is a dev version and I need your feedback to make this solution into Chirp. -- 73 Pavel CO7WT.

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[chirp_users] Luiton radios
by Jack Schlachter 28 May '16

28 May '16

I've ask several times about adding Luiton radios to chirp and one of your responses in another thread stated how busy you are and I get that. I was just wondering if you could take the two minutes to let us Luiton users know if you plan at all to add it to the Chirp radio list. That way I'll at least know and can explore other avenues which for me means sending the radio back because actually there is no other options except to spend the $50 at RMS to get support. Living on SS won't let me do that. I hope I don't sound too aggressive because I don't mean to be, Just would like some answer. Thanks

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[chirp_users] Chirp windows version not updated?
by Tom Consodine 27 May '16

27 May '16

The latest Linux daily build is 20160522. The latest Windows daily build is 20160517. Why is that? Tom ND5Y

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 27 May '16

27 May '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-20160527 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #403 [Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <pavelmc(a)gmail.com>] [PATCH][KT8900R] Settings fix about the 220Mhz band, fixes #3547 Now we have two of this radios that has 220/240 Mhz support in the base class and we need to validate the freq ranges for each one of them, this patch is to realize that. Thanks to Jim Unroe for the help with it. [Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <pavelmc(a)gmail.com>] [PATCH][KT8900R] Initial support for the QYT KT8900R, fixes #3547 This radio is like the BTECH UV-2501+220 but it has the 220 band in the Chinese area (240-270 Mhz) well outside the USA ham band. This is the initial support patch for this radio, it may need further work on the settings part. Changes for Build #404 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [BTECH] Add new settings for BTECH gen3 radios * Mic Gain * DTMF Gain related to #3015

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[chirp_users] back to Linux
by Jack Schlachter 27 May '16

27 May '16

I thought with the great success I had with my Linux box and my Baofeng that I would try the LT-Luiton 588UV. So hooked everything up and I chose as radio type Leixen which someone in my club told me worked for them on Chirp. My first attempt I got Failed to download from radio: Radio refused program mode. Anyone know what might be causing this error? On my second attempt I thought well it worked so well with the Baofeng maybe I'd try making it think it's a Baofeng. So I selected Baofeng Model BF888 which I think is a mobile radio like mine. The error this time read No response from radio. Any idea? Thanks, Jack

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Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP and the Kenwood TH-F6A; syncing with Icom
by Rich Messeder 27 May '16

27 May '16

On 2016-05-26 18:43:-0400, you wrote: >Rich, > >I have a Kenwood TH-F6a. So just for the fun of it, I attached CHIRP >to it and read it in live mode. I copied and pasted on of the channels >from the TH-F6 tab to a tab from one of my Baofeng radios (a loaded >.img file). No problem. I did this, too. Interesting inconsistency. In fact, I copied a block successfully, which was my goal. >Then I followed the instructions that you pasted into your post and >exported the TH-F6a to a .csv file. I imported this into the image of >my Baofeng radio also without any problem. I had saved to a .chirp file. >And just for good measure, I exported the TH-F6a to a .chirp file and >imported it into my Baofeng radio image. No problem. I could not load the F6A .chirp file into the tab with the Icom image. Same error. Tried rewriting the .chirp. Same result. I can achieve my goal, so that meets my needs now, but still leaves the question...maybe I am still missing a point? >Part of the difference, I suppose, is that I am not trying to load 2 >instances of CHIRP. I am doing it with multiple tabs in a single >instance of CHIRP. Indeed...dunno why it didn't occur to me to try...guess I figured that multi-instances worked the same as tabs. ~R~ p.s. This still leaves a few questions from the original post unanswered...why is the F6A live? Why not save an image (likely related to previous question)? >Jim KC9HI >_______________________________________________ >chirp_users mailing list >chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com >http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users >This message was sent to WeatheredSoul at rich.messeder(a)gmail.com >To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com

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[chirp_users] limitations of baofeng uv-5r
by Ted Roby 26 May '16

26 May '16

The default settings for Baofeng uv-5r include the following ranges: 130 - 176 (VHF) 400 - 520 (UHF) However, I was able to successfully raise the VHF range to 130 - 225. I did not attempt to go higher than 225 as I wanted to cover HAM frequencies in my area. After raising the limit of VHF in Other Settings, I was able to manually program a range of fm simplex frequencies through the radio itself. However, CHIRP does not allow me to program the 135cm band into memory, and states that it is out of supported range for this radio. I am able to download these modifications from the radio, but I cannot modify through CHIRP. Can this limit be raised in the driver? For verification I was able to tx from one uv-5r to another on 223.580 simplex.

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