Howdy,
Right, that's the idea. It's downloading them in the background if there is nothing else to do.
No probs with that at all and what I expected.
I then looked at the contents of Mem 10 (on the radio) and
it matched
Mem 16 in CHIRP, likewise Mem 11 on the radio matched Mem
17 in CHIRP,
etc. I checked Mem 22 (on the radio) as the next break in
the memory
map and it matched Mem 34 on CHIRP.
Okay, I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that unused memory gaps are resulting in an incorrect ordering in CHIRP?
Not quite as there were no memory gaps in the radio... Mems 00 - 100 are all in use in Band A, however CHIRP reported that Mems 10 - 15, 22 - 33, etc had nothing programmed in them and displayed incorrect Memory positions for that data.
Not sure if that is clear or not, so I'll try a different description... The data is there in CHIRP, but as indicated earlier, it does not match the Memory location on the radio. CHIRP appears to be putting gaps in to the list.
One other thing I noticed was that even though CHIRP downloaded the entire contents of Band A, without prompting when it was initially connected, if I instructed CHIRP to display 00 - 800, it would download the entire contents again.
Hmm, that's not the way it's supposed to work :)
I figured that would probably be the case :)
One thing that may be throwing you off is that it (yet) doesn't cache empty memories, so it will check the radio again to see if those have been added. Is this perhaps what you perceived as re-downloading the memories?
Understand that. No, that is not what I was seeing. It was downloading all 845 memories each time.
If not, does it do this on Band B? In all honesty, I rarely test with Band A since Band B has more stuff to go wrong, so perhaps I broke something with Band A specifically.
OK, just tried it on Band B and had the same results, ie CHIRP indicates that Mems 0 - 09, 16 - 21, 34 - 35, 64 - 69 are displayed, whereas the radio shows that Mems 0 - 23, 40 - 45, 50 - 73 are all in use. The data is all there, but the Radio Mems don't line up with the CHIRP Mems.
Hope that makes sense :)
Cheers