[chirp_devel] Supported radios update

[Bernhard Hailer]

Thanks for your feedback, Jim!
I've applied the changes you suggested.

73
Bernhard AE6YN

On 2/18/20 4:57 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
> 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.