Hi,
I'm am a long-time user of VHF radios starting with a VX-150 some 15 years ago and switching to Baofeng UV-5R when they were relatively new. I have been using Chirp to program my UV-5R since I first got the radio. One thing that I find annoying about how Chirp works with repeater splits is that it shows it as a + or a -. Most people I deal with in Canada give me frequency pairs. And I haven't found an easy way to get Chirp to show me the actual frequency (as opposed to the +/-.) When I enter a frequency as a "split", it immediately gets converted to "+/-" and there seems to be no way to get Chirp to show it as a "split". This makes it really hard to confirm that I have the correct frequency entered; I need to do frequency math in my head or paper which increases the likelihood of errors.
It would be great if Chirp had a setting that allowed me to say "Always show splits using the format entered" or "Always show splits in: " and let me choose between +/- and "split".
If there is a way to do this, please point me to the documentation (I couldn't find any); if there is not, is this already an open issue (I couldn't find one). And if neither is the case, should I go ahead and create a new issue?
Thanks,
Gerard