Greetings,
I just recently picked up a TH-F6A and love chirp! However, I've got a few issues:
1) Entering Live mode.
With the radio in PC mode, sometimes I can't get it to download / enter live mode.. but it's flaky. I have fewer issues with 0.3.1 stable and 20130510 than I do with the newer dailies. When it fails, the screen stays empty after initiating download, and then if I try again, it says access denied and I have to quit the program.
2) Tune Step on Import.
A friend took time to put various freqs into CHIRP for his UV-5R and sent me a copy of his file. The file includes frequencies that do not land on a 5kHz step, for example FRS frequencies. The file from the UV-5R does not include a tune step field, while the Kenwood TH-F6A has a tune step field.
If entering one of those frequencies into Chirp individually, setting a frequency that doesn't fall on a step will return error 93 "radio refused". However, if by import, the import screen doesn't realize it would be a problem entry and gray it out. When the import runs, the affected channels are skipped quickly (while successfully programmed channels are programmed at a slower pace.) For successful imports, the tune step is defaulted to 5kHz. A workaround could be to take Freq in MHz and divide by .005 and see if (floor(freq) != freq) then default the tune step to 6.25, or otherwise calculate it.
3) Mode on import:
NFM is specified for some entries in the UV-5R file. The Kenwood does have an FMN mode though. If NFM could be mapped to FM at the user's discretion, that would be useful rather than kicking it out.
… and that's it!
Thanks again for a fantastic tool that works with so many radios! Import/export FTW!
Michael