On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM Lyle Giese lyle@lcrcomputer.net wrote:
.img files are radio specific. You can not use a .img file from an Icom ID-880H with a Baofeng UV5R for instance.
You sure can. I do this all the time to transfer memories between my source image (which happens to be from a 12 year old UV-5R) to test and use in many of my CHIRP supported handheld and mobile radios.
To move data from radio type a to radio type b, you export the data to a .csv file(which has no radio specific data unlike a .img file). Then open up an .img file for radio b and import the .csv file to replace the freq/repeater data and then upload it to radio b.
You import the .img file from the source radio into the tab of the destination radio (regardless of the vendor/model). The non-radio specific data is imported. Radio specific settings are ignored. No .csv file is required.
So if you are working with a group that has various makes & models of radios, a .CSV file is how you exchange the freq/repeater data.
Again, this can also be done just as easily with an .img file. The only time I ever mess with .csv files is to help those that do use them and have somehow corrupted theirs using a spreadsheet program, text editor, or some other program.
Lyle W9LRG
Jim KC9HI