[chirp_users] Luiton radios

[Tom Morris]

So far what I've heard of Luiton is about 30 fake profiles they created on
Facebook adding me. Maybe I should accept one of them and ask if they'll
send radios or info on to the project for development? ;)
On May 27, 2016 4:23 PM, "Tom Hayward" <tom at tomh.us> wrote:

> 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
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