[chirp_users] Luiton radios

[Tom Hayward]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Jack Schlachter <km4tdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've ask several times about adding Luiton radios to chirp  and one of your
> responses in another thread stated how busy you are and I get that. I was
> just wondering if you could take the two minutes to let us Luiton users know
> if you plan at all to add it to the Chirp radio list. That way I'll at least
> know and can explore other avenues which for me means sending the radio back
> because actually there is no other options except to spend the $50 at RMS to
> get support. Living on SS won't let me do that. I hope I don't sound too
> aggressive because I don't mean to be, Just would like some answer. Thanks

There are many developers who have contributed code to Chirp, and
we're still welcoming more. The response you're referring to was from
Jim personally. Jim is one of Chirp's most active developers.

There is a FAQ entry about this:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/FAQ#How-can-I-get-my-radio-supported-by-CHIRP

And a relevant search query in the issue tracker (since you didn't
specify a model, neither does this search):
http://chirp.danplanet.com/search/index/chirp?issues=1&q=Luiton

If you don't see anything about support for your radio, it probably
means no one has tried to develop support for it yet. Generally,
support for a radio doesn't come until a ham who owns that radio
decides to add support themselves. From my code submission history,
you can infer that my shack has a few Yaesu and Kenwood radios :-).
This means your odds for support are best if you pick a popular
radio--there's a larger chance someone else will want to add it to
Chirp. I've never even heard of Luiton, so you can bet I won't be
adding that one myself!

If Chirp support is important to you, I recommend limiting your radio
purchases to those already on the supported list:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Supported_Radios

Or if you're anything like me, the first thing you do after pulling a
new radio out of the box if to start sniffing its protocol to add
support for it to Chirp!

Tom KD7LXL