[chirp_users] chirp-daily-20160419-win32: Downloading from Icom T8A

[Rich Messeder]

Actually, timely question...but please keep in mind that I had to "distract" myself from ham stuff with work, chores , etc. ;-)

That said, with the UV-5RTP looking better (I was able to hit a local repeater using tone, so I guess that all the memories are good to go), I turned to my attention to the Icom IC-T8A.

Tried the generic cable, the one that worked w the Baofeng, end could not get it to work...no surprise, as I did not know if the protocols+cables were a match using an adapter. I installed the RT Systems cable and drivers on Windows 10 Pro x64. Downloaded from the radio first try. (Of course, that is w the RTS cable). Name is missing, and I don't know yet how to add it. Minor bump, because I still have the RTS stuff running. RTS actually seems to get more info from the radio, but I don't know if it just adds it in, or if it really comes from the radio...have not cared in the past, as long as the memories were good.

And I didn't try to edit anything in CHIRP because the names were missing...I just tossed the data. Figured that I'd get back to it after I have read all the docs.

~R~ NE1EE


On 2016-04-27 18:51:-0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Rich Messeder <rich.messeder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Could also be that the instructions are not that clear, and don't cover all the bases. I have yet to find in the instructions the so-valuable nuggets revealed here. 'Course, I'm about only half through all the docs I can find. Still, I was up and running with the RT Systems program in a few minutes on my Icom, and I have now spent hours on CHIRP, and not done yet.
>
>Let's compare apples to apples here: how long did it take to edit a
>channel on the Icom with Chirp? Icom's are admittedly much more user
>friendly than the UV5R, and Chirp's UI was designed around Icom's
>programming paradigm. For example, like Chirp, Icoms actually have a
>Tone Mode setting, whereas the UV5R can only stores tones or no
>tones--there's no "mode" setting to turn them on and off.
>
>Tom