[chirp_users] OK, I have a Chirp question/comment
A friend and I have Baofeng H/Ts that we have been using for the past couple of weeks. They are all programmed with a Chirp file he put together with all of the local repeaters, plus a couple of simplex channels he uses for his church security. The security channels are on channel 0, 1 and 2. When I copied the Chirp file into my Anytone mobile, I couldn't hit the repeaters until I figured out all the channel numbers were offset by +1 number on the Anytone. Apparently the Anytone doesn't want to have a channel #0. Once I understood what happened it was easy enough to offset the channel numbers in the Anytone file to get them where they were supposed to be. I was wondering if this was normal for some radio memory registers to start with "0" and some with "1".
Also my Anytone Chirp file sometimes hangs up or freezes, while I haven't had any problems with the Baofeng Chirp files. It usually freezes during a cut and paste operation or during an import or operation. Not a huge problem but sometimes annoying. Should I be downloading new daily Chirp builds?
Thanks Dave KG7RBQ
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Dave C cavanadd@frontier.com wrote:
A friend and I have Baofeng H/Ts that we have been using for the past couple of weeks. They are all programmed with a Chirp file he put together with all of the local repeaters, plus a couple of simplex channels he uses for his church security. The security channels are on channel 0, 1 and 2. When I copied the Chirp file into my Anytone mobile, I couldn't hit the repeaters until I figured out all the channel numbers were offset by +1 number on the Anytone. Apparently the Anytone doesn't want to have a channel #0. Once I understood what happened it was easy enough to offset the channel numbers in the Anytone file to get them where they were supposed to be. I was wondering if this was normal for some radio memory registers to start with "0" and some with "1".
Also my Anytone Chirp file sometimes hangs up or freezes, while I haven't had any problems with the Baofeng Chirp files. It usually freezes during a cut and paste operation or during an import or operation. Not a huge problem but sometimes annoying. Should I be downloading new daily Chirp builds?
Thanks Dave KG7RBQ
Dave,
Of the 5 radios that I program with CHIRP, 3 start the channel numbers with "0" and 2 start the channel numbers with "1". So, yes, this is normal. So don't program channel "0" with anything that you would want to be common amongst all radios.
Jim KC9HI
On 12/14/2013 10:43 AM, Jim Unroe wrote:
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Dave C <cavanadd@frontier.com mailto:cavanadd@frontier.com> wrote:
A friend and I have Baofeng H/Ts that we have been using for the past couple of weeks. They are all programmed with a Chirp file he put together with all of the local repeaters, plus a couple of simplex channels he uses for his church security. The security channels are on channel 0, 1 and 2. When I copied the Chirp file into my Anytone mobile, I couldn't hit the repeaters until I figured out all the channel numbers were offset by +1 number on the Anytone. Apparently the Anytone doesn't want to have a channel #0. Once I understood what happened it was easy enough to offset the channel numbers in the Anytone file to get them where they were supposed to be. I was wondering if this was normal for some radio memory registers to start with "0" and some with "1". Also my Anytone Chirp file sometimes hangs up or freezes, while I haven't had any problems with the Baofeng Chirp files. It usually freezes during a cut and paste operation or during an import or operation. Not a huge problem but sometimes annoying. Should I be downloading new daily Chirp builds? Thanks Dave KG7RBQDave,
Of the 5 radios that I program with CHIRP, 3 start the channel numbers with "0" and 2 start the channel numbers with "1". So, yes, this is normal. So don't program channel "0" with anything that you would want to be common amongst all radios.
Jim KC9HI
Thanks; that's what I was beginning to think.
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