<div dir="ltr">Is there a question in here? Not sure exactly what you need.<div><br></div><div>If you haven't yet, you might want to read the Chrip CSV guide:</div><div><a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/CSV_HowTo">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/CSV_HowTo</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you're looking for a project, learning a programming language may help you with all this data manipulation. Cross-referencing data sources is something that would be pretty quick to automate with a programming language.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom KD7LXL<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Michael D Earls <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeearls@earthlink.net" target="_blank">mikeearls@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">Since I was only working with my radio and the <span>img</span> file was a result of reading from that radio, I started out by naming the columns as they appear in the image file.<br><br>Needless to say, all of the effort I put into entering that data was wasted, as CHIRP could not read it.<br><br>So then I did the image file export to CSV and was surprised to see different column headings, different column order, and even new columns that aren't explained anywhere (URCALL, RPT1CALL, <span>RPT2CALL</span>).<br><br>Once more, I moved my data into this format but in all of the copying/pasting, I managed to get some lines misaligned, so now I don't trust it.<br><br>However, the import would have apparently been successful except for the following errors:<br><br></span>Line 2: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 3: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 4: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 5: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 6: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 7: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 8: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 9: [duplex] <span>`(</span>None)' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 10: [<span>tmode</span>] `(None)' is not in valid list: ['', 'Tone', 'TSQL', 'DTCS', 'DTCS-R', 'TSQL-R', 'Cross']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 11: [<span>tmode</span>] `(None)' is not in valid list: ['', 'Tone', 'TSQL', 'DTCS', 'DTCS-R', 'TSQL-R', 'Cross']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 30: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 38: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 46: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 53: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 56: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 57: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 75: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 108: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 109: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 110: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 111: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 112: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 113: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 114: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 115: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 116: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 117: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 118: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 119: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 120: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 121: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 122: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 123: [duplex] `Split' is not in valid list: ['', '+', '-', 'split', 'off']<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 124: [<span>dtcs_polarity</span>] `' is not in valid list: ['NN', 'NR', 'RN', '<span>RR'</span>]<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 125: [<span>dtcs_polarity</span>] `' is not in valid list: ['NN', 'NR', 'RN', '<span>RR'</span>]<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 126: [<span>dtcs_polarity</span>] `' is not in valid list: ['NN', 'NR', 'RN', '<span>RR'</span>]<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 127: [<span>dtcs_polarity</span>] `' is not in valid list: ['NN', 'NR', 'RN', '<span>RR'</span>]<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 128: [<span>dtcs_polarity</span>] `' is not in valid list: ['NN', 'NR', 'RN', '<span>RR'</span>]<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 129: [<span>dtcs_polarity</span>] `' is not in valid list: ['NN', 'NR', 'RN', '<span>RR'</span>]<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 130: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 131: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 132: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 133: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 134: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 135: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 136: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 137: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 138: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 139: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 140: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 141: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 142: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 143: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Line 144: [<span>rtone</span>] could not convert string to float:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"><br><br>BTW, the CHIRP example here:<br><br><a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP_Examples.php" target="_blank">http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP_Examples.php</a><br><br><span>Shows a Simplex channel with (None) under Duplex.</span> Following that example resulted in the first 8 errors.<br><br>I can go back to my worksheet and manually enter 128 channels in a fraction of the time I wasted trying to import a CSV.<br><br><u></u><br><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1008" style="width:10.5in;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:31.5pt"><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">FREQ<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">NAME<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">TONE<br>MODE<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">CTCSS<br>TONE<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">TONESQL<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">DTCS<br>CODE<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">DTCS<br>RX CODE<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">DTCS<br>POLARITY<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">CROSS<br>MODE<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">DUPLEX<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">OFFSET<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">MODE<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">POWER<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:31.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">SKIP<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"><br><br><u></u><br><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1232" style="width:924.1pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:15.75pt"><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Location<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Name<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Frequency<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Duplex<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Offset<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Tone<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">rToneFreq</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">cToneFreq</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">DtcsCode</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="80" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:60.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">DtcsPolarity</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Mode<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">TStep</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Skip<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Comment<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">URCALL<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">RPT1CALL<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="72" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:0.75in;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">RPT2CALL<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"><br>It seems it should have been possible to be consistent with the column headings.<br><br>Admittedly, I'm very frustrated after fighting this for two days when it shouldn't have taken more than a couple of hours.<br><br>I still need to master importing from a CSV, but it will have to be after my blood pressure lowers.<br><br>I know I could have imported from <span>RepeaterBook</span>. I actually began by compiling a <span>speadsheet</span> of over 300 repeaters from surrounding counties using <span>RepeaterBook</span>.<br><br>Then, I spent hours using <span>RFProjector</span> to verify every one. 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