What always works for me is to program a few sample channels into CHIRP and then export them to a CSV file. Then use the format of that file to create the new one.
Jim KC9HI
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Bryan McWhirt bryan@kb9yen.com wrote:
Ahh the pitfalls of using an archaic mailing list instead of a forum, no ability to search old posts effectively.
I'm having an issue with CSV import. It seems that Chirp is using it's own interpretation.
- Open Office and Excel both save CSV in formats that can not be
imported which is not Chirps fault but I still have to deal with it. So, is there a list of settings and character encoding that actually work when saving from Open Office Calc?
- Chirp seems to break the RFC 4180 (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 ) for CSV in that if you quote the header fields it breaks. Does that need to be reported as a bug?
This is what I'm doing that I cannot seem to get to work. I have a Calc document with the repeaters for the state of Indiana. I export a chirp file to csv and open that in calc as explained here: http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1251 Then I just copy and paste the fields into the chirp csv file and save. I get the no channels found error.
I use sed to strip out any excess hidden characters and then try again and still I get the no channels error.
Maybe I am going about this wrong? is there a way to post columns into chirp directly? If so that would be much easier but it doesn't seem to let me.
-- KB9YEN Bryan McWhirt bryan@kb9yen.com
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