Mike,
Click "View" in the menu bar. Then enable "Hide Unused Fields".
Now unused fields will be blank. You won't need "no tone" because there will be no tone value listed (it will be blank).
CHIRP was recently updated so that new installations will have "Hide Unused Fields" enabled by default.
Jim KC9HI
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Mike Morrow <mikeymail@iliketheinternet.com
wrote:
This is something I was thinking of opening a problem ticket on. It is confusing, obviously, to many to have the default and "no tone" setting to be a tone. In this case 88.5. We use 88.5 on some repeaters locally and having the "no setting" setting the same as "in use setting" both be 88.5 is confusing for a quick look at the grid. I got confused, myself, when going through the grid and had to go back to he repeater book to figure out if these were really in use or not. One used two different tones and one was 88.5 and, once again, I had to go back and double check and make sure if this was in use or "no tone".
I would also like to see a NONE setting in the Tone columns for a more positive indication that there is no tone used here.
Another confusion is when you query the Repeater Guide, if no tone is in use, it comes back 88.5 and you have to then investigate further to see if this is real or "no tone" usage of 88.5.
All around confusing and since software is there to help us, it should not impede progress by adding useless confusion when it is so easy to do it "right" and show NONE when NONE is the correct setting rather than duplicating a valid setting.
Even the stupid Wouxun software, for all its faults, does this properly. Seems like better software (CHIRP) could do at least that good. Right?
I have been a programmer for most of my life. If I set a real entry as the setting for NONE, I would have been fired!
Mike/W6XXX
On 7/23/2014 12:00 PM, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
An entry in the ToneSql field is not required. If the Tone Mode selection is (none), the Tone and ToneSql fields are
ignored.
The 88.5 is a filler default.
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