[chirp_users] "Download from radio" does not bring up clone window

[Mark Smythe]

Jim, I'm trying to do the initial " download from radio" per the beginners
document so the first radio to pc transfer.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 4:58 PM Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:47 PM Mark Smythe <mark.smythe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed
> recommended drivers.  Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
> >
> > I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
> >
> > Mark
>
> It sounds like you are trying to upload a tab that was not previously
> downloaded from a radio. You can't go File -> New and try to upload
> that to a radio. You also can't directly upload a CSV file to any
> radio. For this reason, the Upload selection would be greyed out if
> either of these two tab types were selected.
>
> You always have to download first to create a tab that is compatible
> with your radio. Save the first successful download, unedited, to a
> CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file to be kept in a save place as a
> backup. Then edit a second copy as needed. This tab will be permitted
> to be uploaded back to the same type of radio that is originally came
> from.
>
> Jim KC9HI
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