[chirp_users] Elementary help for novice requested!
Christopher Knowles
Fri May 31 12:26:45 PDT 2019
I find the easiest way to create a new file for a new radio is to simply
highlight a previously successful file, right-click and hit "Copy", then
place the cursor in the upper left-hand corner of the new blank file and
hit the right-click and "Paste" button. Synching all of your HT's makes
them interchangeable. If they have different capabilities, those should
be managed separately. Chris Knowles, N1CAK
On 5/31/2019 2:55 PM, Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> Hi, David. The CHIRP community sometimes makes assumptions about what
> you already know, and we are sometimes wrong. I think you need to
> adjust your mental model of what is happening. (If this is all
> obvious, I apologize.) Here's a way to think about it.
>
> CHIRP can handle many types of radio, and it also handles abstract
> "csv" data files. Each type of radio has a unique type of "image" file
> that is unique to that radio. The only type of file that you can
> upload to your radio is an image file of your radio's type.
>
> Each tab on the top of the CHIRP window is file of a specific type.
> You can only upload to your radio if you are currently in a tab that
> matches your radio's type.
>
> Your current goal is to upload data from a particular abstract CSV
> file. You cannot do this directly. Instead, you must start with an
> image file of your radio's type. We recommend that you download from
> your radio to create this file. Next, you can read in the abstract CSV
> file with the data you want into another tab. Now, you can "import"
> the data you want from the CSV file into the radio image file by any
> of several methods: see
> https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/CSV_HowTo
> Now you have an image file of the type your radio is happy with and
> you can upload it. You do this while you have your radio's image file
> tab selected, not the CSV tab.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:32 AM Dennis Wage <dwage at dwage.com
> <mailto:dwage at dwage.com>> wrote:
>
> Take screen shots of errors. Hit Print Screen. If you use Chrome
> and gmail you can paste the screen shot right into an email
>
> Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)
>
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>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:27 PM Dennis Wage <dwage at dwage.com
> <mailto:dwage at dwage.com>> wrote:
>
> You can't paste it into a new file. It has to be the one you
> downloaded from the radio. You just delete all the frequencies
> and add new ones. Then upload that.
>
> Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)
>
> 245 Corum Hill Road
> Castalian Springs, TN 37031
> (615) 310-4242 Cell
> (615) 562-5128 Home
> http://hammondb3organ.net <http://hammondb3organ.net/>
> http://overdubs.net
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:42 AM David
> <davidp.jackson at hotmail.co.uk
> <mailto:davidp.jackson at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> Jim and Tom,
>
> Thank you for your helpful, informative and welcoming
> responses.
>
> I’m pretty sure that I understand everything you’ve written.
>
> I’m using an HP laptop running W7. I have a second HP
> laptop running W10 but I prefer the other machine.
>
> I’ve already tried to copy and paste the marine vhf stock
> configuration but I highlighted all rows, select all,
> copy, paste into a file, new. It didn’t work but I’ll try
> again one row at a time.
>
> I’m still having issues with file/save and file/save as.
> As I click on either action, the screen simply reverts to
> the open page. Sounds pretty simple but I haven’t yet
> found a way to save/change name as save!
>
> Hopefully. The YouTube video will help. I’m now away from
> home for the weekend but based upon your feedback I’ll be
> enthusiastically trying again on Monday!
>
> Kind regards
>
> David
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 31 May 2019, at 12:48, Tom Henderson <Tom at henderson4.us
> <mailto:Tom at henderson4.us>> wrote:
>
>> Look at the tab for the file you have open that you're
>> trying to write to the radio. If it says something like
>> "Generic CSV" a the beginning, you can't write that to a
>> radio.
>>
>> The problem is that you're opening a new file, or at
>> least that's what you said you were doing in your
>> original email. The only files you can write to a radio
>> are files that were created by reading from a radio. The
>> name on the tab should be the model of the radio you
>> pulled it from. Save an unmodified version, then import
>> the stock config into the file you got from the radio,
>> save it again with a new name, then write it to the radio.
>>
>> If "Upload to radio" is blank, it's most likely the tab
>> you have open didn't come from a radio.
>>
>> Check out this youtube video -
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_kdktZAkI
>>
>> At 4:40, he has just pulled the config from the radio.
>>
>> At 7:00, he starts importing VHF channels
>>
>> At 11:00, he uploads the file he just finished
>> downloading and modifying back to the radio.
>>
>> Tom Henderson
>> On 5/31/19 6:08 AM, David wrote:
>>> Thanks for the response, Tom, much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Your description is pretty much what I’m trying,
>>> unsuccessfully, to achieve.
>>>
>>> I don’t seem able to either “file, save” or “file, save
>>> as”. Clicking on either doesn’t appear to work. When I’m
>>> on the page with “stock configuration” the “send to
>>> radio” option is greyed out.
>>>
>>> I’ve tried a few times but always the same result. My
>>> next step is probably to download the chirp software and
>>> try again. Otherwise, I’m stuck!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 31 May 2019, at 11:52, Tom Henderson
>>> <Tom at henderson4.us <mailto:Tom at henderson4.us>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounds like you're missing a step. Once you've
>>>> downloaded successfully from the radio, save that file
>>>> and keep it in case you ever want to go back to the
>>>> settings it came out of the box with. Next, with that
>>>> file still open, select "radio" from the top menu,
>>>> "Import from stock config," and then select the UHF
>>>> channels you need. Now save the modofied file under a
>>>> new name, and with that file still open, try
>>>> writingback to the radio.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> KW4TOM
>>>>
>>>> Tom Henderson
>>>> On 5/31/19 2:16 AM, David wrote:
>>>>> I've just bought a Baofeng UV-5R III and I'd like to
>>>>> use it for marine vhf and 2m and 70cm amateur bands.
>>>>> I've held a ham license since the 1980s but have been
>>>>> inactive for many years.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've succeeded with "Download from radio". I've also
>>>>> opened a new page to "Import from stock config" to
>>>>> open FR marine vhf.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't seem to be able to "File; save" or "File; save
>>>>> as"?
>>>>>
>>>>> When I'm on the marine vhf page, I can not "upload to
>>>>> radio" The text is greyed out?
>>>>>
>>>>> All help gratefully received!
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> David, G4PYH
>>>>> Cheshire, UK
>>>>>
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