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

[Jim Unroe]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
>
> .img files are radio specific.  You can not use a .img file from an Icom
> ID-880H with a Baofeng UV5R for instance.

You sure can. I do this all the time to transfer memories between my
source image (which happens to be from a 12 year old UV-5R) to test
and use in many of my CHIRP supported handheld and mobile radios.

> 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.

You import the .img file from the source radio into the tab of the
destination radio (regardless of the vendor/model). The non-radio
specific data is imported. Radio specific settings are ignored. No
.csv file is required.

> 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.

Again, this can also be done just as easily with an .img file. The
only time I ever mess with .csv files is to help those that do use
them and have somehow corrupted theirs using a spreadsheet program,
text editor, or some other program.

> Lyle W9LRG

Jim KC9HI