I had this same question but disagree with the manual suggestion in the case of Baeofung. Even they tell you CHIRP is preferred over their stuff right on the website!
As a new HAM operator all the terminology and technology focused language is not easy to absorb but you need to know all that Greek just get a basic radio setup so you can use it and gain experience. I think a good technical writer could really help the CHIRP documentation to be newbie friendly. That's not me :)
Anyways I had stumbled across a page somewhere on the interweb in the last week that described all the settings and I had meant to save it so I could use it as a reference but now I cannot find it. If anyone knows of the resource, please share!
Thank you, Nick KK6TYY
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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Tom Hayward tom@tomh.us wrote:
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Grayg Ralphsnyder wgrayg@mountain.net wrote:
In CHIRP there there is a tab of MEMORIES settings and there is a tab of SETTINGS. The MEMORIES tab is the columnar data of Location, Frequency, Name, Tone Mode, .... etc... ON the SETTINGS tab there is Carrier Squelch Level, Battery Saver, Backlight Timeout, etc. I want to know about this SETTINGS tab. I am using chirp-daily-20140428-installer .
In Chirp, the memory tab is common for all radios. The settings tab is specific to each model of radio. (This is why you can't copy/paste/import/export settings.) For the most part, we use the same name for each of the settings as the manufacturer uses in their documentation. The manual for your radio should describe these features with the same terminology. So, look through your manual to find a description of the Battery Saver feature.
Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________