[chirp_users] Tasks for creating CHIRP documentation

[Mike Agner]

To start to create the beginner's guide, probably the easiest place to 
start- because it's likely the process is the same for all of the file 
formats - are the import functions.

To review, according to the main page on the wiki, CHIRP can import data 
from;

a. EVE (application for the VX5R)
b. Kenwood HMK files
c. Kenwood Commercial ITM files
d. Icom .icf files
e. ARRL Travel Plus .tpe files
f.  VX5 Commander Files
g. VX7 Commander Files

If I could get a sample file of each of these, I could start documenting 
the import process. It would also be very helpful to know if there's 
anything special about these formats that
needs to be tweaked - anything at all - before or after the import is 
completed. It doesn't have to be very big or anything special - if it 
imports correctly into CHIRP, it's useable.

My email is ka3jjz (at) comcast (dot) net

After these pages are complete, the next imports to be documented will 
be the repeaterbook, etc. imports. I'm already somewhat familiar with 
the RadioReference import (it's a little similar
to a Uniden Home Patrol because it uses your zip code as the driver) so 
that should be pretty simple.

Unfortunately since I'm currently on unemployment, buying a radio to 
document the upload/editing/download functions is a no-go - so if anyone 
wants to jump in on that, it would be a big help. That's
probably the largest part of the job. Even if you're not fully informed 
about all those functions, getting a starter page for each of those 
functions will go a long way to identifying what
needs to be enhanced to make it complete. My desktop died just recently, 
so doing this on a puny netbook is something of a challenge...

We also need a list of each radio that's on that main page, and whether 
it's a clone mode or live mode radio. There's 2 ways we could do this 
(and both are probably just as useful). Put
up a table with all the radios on it, and also list that individual 
radio on its own page, as shown in the template I sent out earlier. I 
didn't see much about this in the table of radio functions that's
already there, so it's yet another point a newcomer might not know 
about. That won't be too difficult, if someone has that data, I could 
use this as well.

Once all of this is done, then it's time to use the template and start 
creating a page for each radio.

Mike



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