[chirp_users] Tasks for creating CHIRP documentation

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Does anyone have a supported transceiver that they would be willing to loan
Mike to help in his excellent work?

David
N1EA
 On Nov 25, 2013 4:33 PM, "Mike Agner" <ka3jjz at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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