[chirp_users] Hello, delightful program, thanks

[Dan Smith]

> It installed almost flawlessly with
>
>      python setup.py
>
> It complained about a missing chirp.png, so I copied your logo, parked
> it in share/ and reran the installation, all is well, although the logo
> doesn't appear in the start menu (Linux openSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.6). No biggie.

Are you using a recent daily build? I think I fixed this a couple days ago.

> Occasionally when changing a channel parameter the radio does not
> respond rapidly enough so I get an error, but inevitably on trying again
> it works. Not sure whether writing with a TAB or ENTER makes any
> difference, these errors seem to occur regardless of which I use to
> enter the change.

Yes, it's very frustrating -- for the users and developer. The radio can 
switch baud rates at will (it seems) and each time you communicate with 
it, you have to send it a special block to wake it up (and out of data 
mode). The Icom software seems to either (a) have some interesting 
algorithm for doing that appropriately, or (b) blasts the radio a lot 
and hopes it wakes up.

> But the more difficult problem is in writing to a CSV file. Every
> attempt to do this fails with a python error if I try to customize the
> path and filename of the destination CSV:
>
>      invalid literal for int() with base 10 'A' on line 4

Hmm, can you send me the full console output so I can have a look?

> I'll be sending a contribution.

Thanks, always appreciated! :)

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS