Actually, timely question...but please keep in mind that I had to "distract" myself from ham stuff with work, chores , etc. ;-)

That said, with the UV-5RTP looking better (I was able to hit a local repeater using tone, so I guess that all the memories are good to go), I turned to my attention to the Icom IC-T8A.

Tried the generic cable, the one that worked w the Baofeng, end could not get it to work...no surprise, as I did not know if the protocols+cables were a match using an adapter. I installed the RT Systems cable and drivers on Windows 10 Pro x64. Downloaded from the radio first try. (Of course, that is w the RTS cable). Name is missing, and I don't know yet how to add it. Minor bump, because I still have the RTS stuff running. RTS actually seems to get more info from the radio, but I don't know if it just adds it in, or if it really comes from the radio...have not cared in the past, as long as the memories were good.

And I didn't try to edit anything in CHIRP because the names were missing...I just tossed the data. Figured that I'd get back to it after I have read all the docs.

~R~ NE1EE

On 2016-04-27 18:51:-0700, you wrote:

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Rich Messeder rich.messeder@gmail.com wrote:

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Could also be that the instructions are not that clear, and don't cover all the bases. I have yet to find in the instructions the so-valuable nuggets revealed here. 'Course, I'm about only half through all the docs I can find. Still, I was up and running with the RT Systems program in a few minutes on my Icom, and I have now spent hours on CHIRP, and not done yet.

Let's compare apples to apples here: how long did it take to edit a channel on the Icom with Chirp? Icom's are admittedly much more user friendly than the UV5R, and Chirp's UI was designed around Icom's programming paradigm. For example, like Chirp, Icoms actually have a Tone Mode setting, whereas the UV5R can only stores tones or no tones--there's no "mode" setting to turn them on and off.

Tom