[chirp_users] Using Chirp question

[Ken Hansen]

One of the well-known weaknesses of the Chinese radios like the Baofengs is slow scan speed compared with radios from 'the big three' (Yaesu, Kenwood, and Icom). While CHIRP can make it easy, almost trivial, to keep adding frequencies to your HT, you may find it takes a long time to scan through all those channels.

I now limit the number of frequencies I program into my Chinese radios, and I appreciate the difference. While Chinese radios may scan 3-4 channels/second, a 'big three' radio can scan 10-20x as many channels/second...

Good luck, and welcome to the hobby,

Ken

> On Mar 29, 2022, at 17:56, strice2022 via chirp_users <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> 
> I am a new user to amateur radio and using chirp with a Baofeng BF-F8HP on MacOS 12.3.  I have loaded repeaters into chirp by counties that I am in and travel through.