[chirp_users] Rig Settings

[Jim Unroe]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Alan Hayes <arhayes999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The left side "box" for both of my radios only shows the "banks" options.
>
> I have, and have used, the VX7 Commander software for years, and also have
> the Icom software for my 2 2720's, so I can do what I need for my radios.
> However, I'm trying to help others in our Club who do not have these brands
> and am trying to figure this all out. I recently did a presentation for our
> club on Chirp, and the rig settings question came up there. Since the basics
> are already set anyway it is not a necessity, but I was interested. Chirp in
> conjunction with Repeater Book is pretty powerful stuff and I'm enjoying
> playing with it.
>
> I gather that for some newer brands the rig settings option IS available?
> Thanks!

The "rig settings" that are support by CHIRP varies by what setting
the radio has available and by what the developer(s) for that radio
decided to implement. It seems that the developer(s) for the radios
you have only chose to support the most basic per-channel settings
plus the bank settings.

The CHIRP repository has CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) files saved there
for many of the CHIRP supported radios models. All you have to do is
download a few of the many images (106) for the most popular radio
models. Loading any of them into your copy of CHIRP will allow you to
see the "rig settings" that are supported by each image.

Loading the image for the BTech UV-5X3 would demonstrate CHIRP's
support for this radio by displaying 6 tabs of settings (nearly every
feature that can be manipulated using software).

https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/show/tests/images

Jim KC9HI