[chirp_users] Using CHIRP

[Richard Mogford]

Thanks, Jim!

That helps.

Richard


On May 22, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Richard Mogford <rchrdm at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I just did some work to put a list of repeaters into my Beofeng UV-5R.
> 
> It seems like a bit of a complicated process, especially to revise a list already in the radio.
> 
> The starting point was I had a list that was too long in the radio.
> 
> 1. Downloaded the whole list from the radio.
> 2. Deleted all the rows in CHIRP.
> 3. Loaded the blank list back to the radio.
> 4. Imported a .CSV file from Repeaterbook.com. (I edited this in Excel to change what was in it a bit.)
> 5. Copied and pasted the imported repeater list from the "Generic CSV" tab to the "Baofeng UV-5R" tab.
> 6. Uploaded the new Baofeng list to the radio.
> 
> Is it necessary to go through all of this?
> 
> (I did read the manual.)
> 
> Richard
> 
> Step 1 must be done at least one time to get a "Baofeng UV-5R:" tab. After that, it can be loaded from a saved .img file.
> 
> 2. This depends. Were they already programmed channels that you wanted or were they the factory channels that you wanted to get rid of. I probably would have exported them to a .csv file. That way you would have an example .csv in the proper format to be imported into CHIRP. Then you could have added your Repeaterbook.com channels to this file.
> 
> 3. This step was definitely unnecessary.
> 
> 4 & 5. These steps could have been combined. Choose Import from CSV files while you have the "Baofeng UV-5R:" tab selected and you will be presented with an "Import From File" menu that will allow you to choose which rows to import (from a single entry all the way to all entries) and which memories that you want them imported to. I believe that you can even overwrite an existing CHIRP memory if that is what  you want. In other words, there is no need to copy & paste between tabs, but there is nothing wrong with doing it that way either.
> 
> 6. This step is only required if you want your radio to match the layout that you created in CHIRP. ;-)
> 
> Jim KC9HI
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