[chirp_devel] DOT Channels

[Tom Hayward]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Steven Santos via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> Maybe, but gmrs is also licensed space and that is included as stock configs
> without issue.

GMRS, being a common radio service with a pre-defined set of channels,
makes more sense in a stock config to me because people may want to
scan the whole service.  The marine stock config fits the same
standard. This doesn't translate well to the dot frequencies, which
are more of a historical service, and now map to a mix of Part 90 and
Part 95. We already have the full set of MURS channels in a stock
config, it's just the Part 90 dot channels we don't include.

That's how I feel about it anyway, but I'm just one guy without the
ability to merge things into Chirp.

P.S. Now that I'm reviewing this, I see that we don't set duplex to
"off" in the stock configs intended for scanning. This is probably
because duplex "off" support did not exist when the stock configs were
added. We might consider editing the FRS/GMRS, marine, MURS, and
weather stock configs so that users do not inadvertently program their
radios to transmit on these services.

> But at the end of the day, I care mostly about making it work for me if no
> one else.  If you can help me verify the entries are correct, Ill leave it
> for others to figure out if it belongs in stock or not.

What can we compare to to qualify "correct"? Do you have programming
data for one of their current working radios we can compare to? Or
their license data? By the way, radio programming help is outside of
the scope of the devel list.

Tom KD7LXL