[chirp_devel] Supported radios update

[Jim Unroe]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:52 PM Bernhard Hailer via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I think I made finding a radio in the Baofeng/Pofung section of the
> Supported Radio Wiki page a bit easier. I kept a copy of the source for
> the original layout if needed; but I believe it's better now. I've added
> the BF-V9 as a BF-888 variant as described in #7623.
>
> All, and especially Jim, please let me know if there are any errors.
>
>
> Thanks and 73
> Bernhard

Hi Bernhard,

Thanks for working on this. I was just noticing a couple of days ago
that UV-9S and UV-9R are out of alphanumeric order and could be
swapped.

I placed the "(2 power levels)" comment after UV-5R and "(3 power
levels)" comment after BF-F8HP to help owners with one of the many
Baofeng UV-5R like models to choose the the appropriate base model
selection for their radio based on the number of power levels it has.
So the " 3 power levels" notation can probably be removed from comment
for all of the models that reference the BF-F8HP as the base model to
choose.

Another possibility would be to add a separate "and variants" list for
the models with 3 power levels similar to the list provided for UV-5R
variants (or add section to the existing UV-5R variants list) and move
these models that that list.

Normally for the Baofeng/Pofung models, when a group of models is
separated by "/" characters, I consider the first (leftmost) listed
model as the model to choose in CHIRP. The BF-666S/777S/888S breaks
this. My thinking is that this should be changed to BF-888S/666S/777S.
Then the models that say "(use BF-666S/777S/888S)" can be change to
"(use Baofeng BF-888).

Once again thank you for all the work you have been doing on this and
the issue tracking system.

Jim KC9HI

There is no separate selection for UV-82C in the drop-down list for
CHIRP. It uses UV-82 and should be moved into the "UV-82/82L/82X"
group.