Re: [chirp_users] Loading repeater info for Central Florida
Amen to that Dan!
I just helped my father start using CHIRP. He had a lot of trouble on his older XP system. Seemed that the driver for talking to his Kenwood handheld had 'gone wonky'. After cleaning up the mess of other software issues on that machine, I was able to reinstall the driver and everything started working together nicely. Interestingly, even with the 'wonky' driver, he was able to use the Kenwood software (which I considered odd) so he wanted to blame it on CHIRP. I used it as a teachable moment about drivers and the 'hardware device manager' (it had the cute little yellow question mark next to the usb device for the HT....) Now he can use CHIRP to program his HT, his new mobile, and his HF+ home station. He's a happy ham!
FWIW, I continue to be amazed at the incremental improvements in CHIRP. I'm using an older build at home (if it's not broke 'don't fix it') but the latest one that Dad had installed had some nice improvements. Thank you for continuing to support and improve such a universal and useful tool for hams everywhere!
73, Grant Hopper KB7WSD
The problem is, your system libraries (DLLs) could be out of whack for
a million reasons, and it's really hard for us to diagnose it remotely for you. The applications you have that _do_ work properly are either targeting a much older system in order to be safe, or are shipping new libraries (compounding the ones you currently have on your system) to avoid any such issue. Unfortunately, I can't do that in chirp for various technical, legal and cost reasons. That said, I hope you will stick it out a bit longer and/or try another machine before you give up.
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
Awesome... wish Grant lived near me (grin!)
On 8 Mar 2013 at 13:52, Grant Hopper wrote:
Amen to that Dan!
I just helped my father start using CHIRP. He had a lot of trouble on his older XP system. Seemed that the driver for talking to his Kenwood handheld had 'gone wonky'. After cleaning up the mess of other software issues on that machine, I was able to reinstall the driver and everything started working together nicely. Interestingly, even with the 'wonky' driver, he was able to use the Kenwood software (which I considered odd) so he wanted to blame it on CHIRP. I used it as a teachable moment about drivers and the 'hardware device manager' (it had the cute little yellow question mark next to the usb device for the HT....) Now he can use CHIRP to program his HT, his new mobile, and his HF+ home station. He's a happy ham!
FWIW, I continue to be amazed at the incremental improvements in CHIRP. I'm using an older build at home (if it's not broke 'don't fix it') but the latest one that Dad had installed had some nice improvements. Thank you for continuing to support and improve such a universal and useful tool for hams everywhere!
73, Grant Hopper KB7WSD
The problem is, your system libraries (DLLs) could be out of whack for a million reasons, and it's really hard for us to diagnose it remotely for you. The applications you have that _do_ work properly are either targeting a much older system in order to be safe, or are shipping new libraries (compounding the ones you currently have on your system) to avoid any such issue. Unfortunately, I can't do that in chirp for various technical, legal and cost reasons. That said, I hope you will stick it out a bit longer and/or try another machine before you give up.
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
My XP laptop was so bad after the changes suggested that it would run extremely slowly and could not even run Firefox or Internet Explorer any more. It was just freezing up. I could not get it to do a system restore either. What a mess it was in. He he. You have to love this technology stuff! After four days of severe problems with this laptop, I finally REMOVED Service Pack 3, Removed Chirp, and bought FTBasicMMO. The problem is now solved. Now I am ready to program memories into the FT857D when it arrives in a few days.
73 to all who tried to help.
Bry AF4K
On 8 Mar 2013 at 17:13, Bry Carling wrote:
From: "Bry Carling" bcarling@cfl.rr.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Date sent: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:13:19 -0500 Priority: normal Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Loading repeater info for Central Florida Send reply to: Brian Carling AF4K bcarling@cfl.rr.com, Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com mailto:chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com?subject=unsubscribe mailto:chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com?subject=subscribe
Awesome... wish Grant lived near me (grin!)
On 8 Mar 2013 at 13:52, Grant Hopper wrote:
Amen to that Dan!
I just helped my father start using CHIRP. He had a lot of trouble on his older XP system. Seemed that the driver for talking to his Kenwood handheld had 'gone wonky'. After cleaning up the mess of other software issues on that machine, I was able to reinstall the driver and everything started working together nicely. Interestingly, even with the 'wonky' driver, he was able to use the Kenwood software (which I considered odd) so he wanted to blame it on CHIRP. I used it as a teachable moment about drivers and the 'hardware device manager' (it had the cute little yellow question mark next to the usb device for the HT....) Now he can use CHIRP to program his HT, his new mobile, and his HF+ home station. He's a happy ham!
FWIW, I continue to be amazed at the incremental improvements in CHIRP. I'm using an older build at home (if it's not broke 'don't fix it') but the latest one that Dad had installed had some nice improvements. Thank you for continuing to support and improve such a universal and useful tool for hams everywhere!
73, Grant Hopper KB7WSD
The problem is, your system libraries (DLLs) could be out of whack for a million reasons, and it's really hard for us to diagnose it remotely for you. The applications you have that _do_ work properly are either targeting a much older system in order to be safe, or are shipping new libraries (compounding the ones you currently have on your system) to avoid any such issue. Unfortunately, I can't do that in chirp for various technical, legal and cost reasons. That said, I hope you will stick it out a bit longer and/or try another machine before you give up.
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bry Carling bcarling@cfl.rr.com wrote:
My XP laptop was so bad after the changes suggested that it would run extremely slowly and could not even run Firefox or Internet Explorer any more. It was just freezing up. I could not get it to do a system restore either. What a mess it was in. He he. You have to love this technology stuff! After four days of severe problems with this laptop, I finally REMOVED Service Pack 3, Removed Chirp, and bought FTBasicMMO. The problem is now solved. Now I am ready to program memories into the FT857D when it arrives in a few days.
Service pack 3 is a real killer. I have seen it take reasonably functional machines and turn them into paperweights for the most part.
Yep that was it. I was told that SP3 was imperative for use with Chirp and so that was the killer for me. I researched this for many hours trying to make everything play nicely and no ne of the solutions on the web from Microsoft or others was of any avail!
Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
Maybe I will try Chirp again some day on a newer computer. Pity. It looked like it would have been a nice program, and Dan was very helpful.
On 11 Mar 2013 at 17:46, Tim Billingsley wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bry Carling bcarling@cfl.rr.com wrote:
My XP laptop was so bad after the changes suggested that it would
run
extremely slowly and could not even run Firefox or Internet
Explorer any
more. It was just freezing up. I could not get it to do a system
restore
either. What a mess it was in. He he. You have to love this
technology
stuff! After four days of severe problems with this laptop, I finally
REMOVED
Service Pack 3, Removed Chirp, and bought FTBasicMMO. The problem is now solved.
Now I am
ready to program memories into the FT857D when it arrives in a few
days.
Service pack 3 is a real killer. I have seen it take reasonably functional machines and turn them into paperweights for the most part.
No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6162 - Release Date: 03/10/13
I'm not sure what the problem is, but I have sp3 running fine on many machines.
It might be firewall related as sp3 turns on windows firewall by default.
Mike va3mw
On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:51 PM, "Bry Carling" bcarling@cfl.rr.com wrote:
Yep that was it. I was told that SP3 was imperative for use with Chirp and so that was the killer for me. I researched this for many hours trying to make everything play nicely and no ne of the solutions on the web from Microsoft or others was of any avail!
Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
Maybe I will try Chirp again some day on a newer computer. Pity. It looked like it would have been a nice program, and Dan was very helpful.
On 11 Mar 2013 at 17:46, Tim Billingsley wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bry Carling bcarling@cfl.rr.com wrote:
My XP laptop was so bad after the changes suggested that it would
run
extremely slowly and could not even run Firefox or Internet
Explorer any
more. It was just freezing up. I could not get it to do a system
restore
either. What a mess it was in. He he. You have to love this
technology
stuff! After four days of severe problems with this laptop, I finally
REMOVED
Service Pack 3, Removed Chirp, and bought FTBasicMMO. The problem is now solved.
Now I am
ready to program memories into the FT857D when it arrives in a few
days.
Service pack 3 is a real killer. I have seen it take reasonably functional machines and turn them into paperweights for the most part.
No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6162 - Release Date: 03/10/13
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