[chirp_users] Icom IC-2100H, Excel spreadsheet, csv files, chirp-next-20240111-win64

[Lyle Giese]

.img files are radio specific.  You can not use a .img file from an Icom 
ID-880H with a Baofeng UV5R for instance.

To move data from radio type a to radio type b, you export the data to a 
.csv file(which has no radio specific data unlike a .img file).  Then 
open up an .img file for radio b and import the .csv file to replace the 
freq/repeater data and then upload it to radio b.

So if you are working with a group that has various makes & models of 
radios, a .CSV file is how you exchange the freq/repeater data.

Lyle W9LRG

On 1/11/24 10:00, Rich NE1EE wrote:
> On 2024-01-11 10:25:, Nigel A. Gunn  G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
>> Hi Rich
>>
>> I've probably missed something.
>> Why do you need to use CSV files at all?
>> If it's multiple radio types, I believe you can import the .img file from one radio into a different radio model.
>> The only reason I see to use csv files is if you need to print it to paper.
> I am working with folks who find it easier to use the spreadsheet, because they are not chirp users. This really will not be done often, so after this pass is over, and the radios are updated with the same image, we won't be using the spreadsheet or csv files very often.
>
> I use the image files myself, but for others who prefer to use the spreadsheet or csv file, the spreadsheet is definitely much easier for them. Then the only way to get to the images files in chirp is via the csv file.
>
> But that is beside the issue...there seem to be problems with processing csv files...?
>
> ~R~
>
>
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