On some of mine, I have the county name, or whatever it is. For example, before our county sherrif of Madison county went digital, I called it: MadShf You only get 6 characters to work with. For my local 2 meter, in Norfolk, I put Norflk For the 440 repeater, I put NFK440 So you can use whatever you want. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: strice2022 via chirp_users To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 5:48 PM Subject: [chirp_users] Using Chirp question

Hi,

I am a new user to amateur radio and using chirp with a Baofeng BF-F8HP on MacOS 12.3. I have loaded repeaters into chirp by counties that I am in and travel through. The name in chirp and my radio is the call sign. When I am going through the channels in my radio I don’t know where that repeater is.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to organize or tell the location of those repeaters other than by memorizing call signs? Would changing the name in Chirp be one way or is that not a good idea?

Thanks,

Steve KF0IHT

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One of the well-known weaknesses of the Chinese radios like the Baofengs is slow scan speed compared with radios from 'the big three' (Yaesu, Kenwood, and Icom). While CHIRP can make it easy, almost trivial, to keep adding frequencies to your HT, you may find it takes a long time to scan through all those channels.

I now limit the number of frequencies I program into my Chinese radios, and I appreciate the difference. While Chinese radios may scan 3-4 channels/second, a 'big three' radio can scan 10-20x as many channels/second...

Good luck, and welcome to the hobby,

Ken

On Mar 29, 2022, at 17:56, strice2022 via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:

I am a new user to amateur radio and using chirp with a Baofeng BF-F8HP on MacOS 12.3. I have loaded repeaters into chirp by counties that I am in and travel through.