Re: [chirp_users] help with chirp

is there anywhere that gives the meaning of the columns in chirp?

CHIRP, like any other programming software, assumes the user knows what he wants to put into his radio. It's rather dangerous for you to be transmitting on amateur or commercial frequencies without knowing the details of what you have told your transceiver to do. That said, I just cooked up a description of these fields:

http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MemoryEditorColumns

It won't teach you what to put in the columns. For that, you probably want an elmer or some other educational reference material. However, in support of understanding exactly how CHIRP interprets each, that guide should help.