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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dan has kindly added two new radios to
the list at my request: the Yaesu FT-2800m and the Kenwood
TH-K2. I also have an Icom W32A and have been testing CHIRP
with it. I'm using the 8/11 daily build. My approach to
testing is as follows.<br><br>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in">1) Use CHIRP to read a "known
good" parameter set from the radio and see if the data appears
to be correct.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in">2) Use CHIRP to write the same file
back to the radio and see if the radio works as it did with the
original parameter set.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in">3) Use CHIRP to create a common file
and write it to all three radios and verify that the radios works
correctly with the new file</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>FT-2800m<br>CHIRP appears to pass
Step 1&2, have not tried 3 yet</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in">CHIRP appear to export the Tone field
from the radio correctly, but does not export the Tone field from
the radio download to csv or chirp files; in those export files, the Tone field is
left blank.<br><br>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in">The Tone fields as imported by CHIRP from the
radio are all changed to 67 Hz, unless the tone is 67 Hz, in which
case the Tone field is left blank.</div>
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I've attached the .img files as downloaded from the radios, the chirp file exported after the download, and .mcp and .icw32 files from the Kenwood and RT systems programs that I have used for the THK@ and W32A in the past.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Jim Givens<br>KJ7F<br><div></div></div></div><div></div></div></div><div><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="on"></div></div></body></html>