[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-3R: What do you think?

[Dan Smith]

> One of my radios is a Baofeng UV-3R... and it does not support
> displaying a NAME, rather, only a frequency on the display.  However, it
> would be very helpful if CHIRP would allow the display of a name within
> the software, even if it is never uploaded to the radio.  This would
> just be a visual reminder about what the frequency is.

I doubt you'll have any trouble getting folks to agree that they would
like this :)

It's an oft-requested feature, but it's not as easy as it sounds because
CHIRP stores raw radio images. If the radio doesn't have a spot for the
name (or a comment) then there's no easy place to store that information
without making the image incompatible with the actual radio. I've been
thinking about a way to support this in a generic manner, but it will
require some work under the covers to implement. There are several other
things on the list ahead of this, but I'll get to it at some point.

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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