Got it Dan, thanks! Somehow missed the merge/overwrite of the radio image and the csv import. Just tried it and it works.

Going to solve my laptop/W2k prob by trying to upgrade the OS to XP. That'll solve a number of probs, including being able to easily use your later releases of CHIRP. Using your latest build on my desktop machine and all is well with it.

Thanks for the response to the CHIRP user's email. Thought I had asked the question on the mailing list, i.e., "chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com." I much prefer asking the question there to find whether other uses have had the same problem or can offer a solution than bugging the guys doing the coding.

Best regards --

Jim

On 4/15/2012 7:29 PM, Dan Smith wrote:

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I've re-read the newbie instructions numerous times but suspect I am doing something wrong.

You can't upload a CSV file to a radio directly, you can only upload an image. So, grab an image from the radio, *import* the contents of the CSV file, and then upload back to the radio.

There have been a lot of CSV fixes since 0.1.12, so I recommend the following procedure:

1. Download from the alinco with your older version, save to myalinco.img
2. Copy myalinco.img to the newer machine
3. In the current version of chirp, open your myalinco.img
4. File->Import, choose the CSV file
5. File->Save the changes back to myalinco.img
6. Copy the myalinco.img back to your older computer
7. File->Open it with the older chirp and then Radio->Upload to push it back into the radio.

It's more complicated than it should need to be since you have the other issue of not being able to run the current chirp on the older machine.

In the future, asking questions like this on the mailing list would be preferred so everyone can help/contribute/benefit from the discussion.

Thanks!