Folks, I moved from Tampa, FL to Kalama, WA, Chirp has made setting up my radios a WHOLE lot easier. I have sort of sat and watched all the goings on. With the move I had to load a whole lot of new frequencies into the radios, Chirp really took care of that issue.
Now I have a question, perhaps this will generate rocks and rotten fruit tossed my way, but I have been playing with a Samsung S2 Tablet 10.1. I got the USB interface dongle, and plugged a USB serial port in it, did a: ls /dev |grep ttyUSB0 and sure enough there it was, I plugged a second one into a USB 4 port device and saw ttyUSB01 appear, so the device recognizes and loads the proper drivers. Now I will fire up screen and try to talk to my old Kenwood TM-D700 sending it some manual com- mands to see if I get a reply, on my Linux boxes it talks like a parrot, so it should be a easy test.
The question is has anyone tried to port Chirp to Android? These nice big tablets sure make nice screens for the vehicle and the cheaper ones do not cost that much.
Of course the next step is a screen for direct entry of the front panel and a real nice proper presentation of a control panel on a touch screen.
I am not a programmer, but I can test code, now that I no longer am doing field service (I am fixed here in the glass container plant in Kalama, WA) I have a bit more time to test out code. So if anyone wants to try it, I am willing to do testing, I have the old Kenwood and I also have a Icom 92AD.
It was the 92AD that brought me to Chirp. And here I am quite happy with it.
Keep up the good work folks.