<div dir="ltr"><div><div>That is rather clever! Thanks.<br><br>For my Baofeng radio, as noted in another response, it is necessary to open a writeable, downloaded .img file in the 2nd tab. Otherwise, the only save[as] option is to a .csv file.<br><br></div>The only advantage then of my sort script is that one can specify multiple sort keys, e.g. "-k 2,2 -k 3n,3" to sort primarily by name (column 2) and secondarily by frequency (column 3).<br><br></div> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Jim Unroe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I can't think of a good reason why you would would CHIRP to come up in<br>
any order other then the order that the channels are in the radio.<br>
What I believe that you are wanting is to put the sorted order in the<br>
channel order and that is very easy to do.<br>
<br>
Download from the radio (or load a saved image file) twice.<br>
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> A user with dozens of repeaters might want them to be programmed into the radio sorted by repeater Name for easy location (clockwise rotation of the ‘channel' knob steps through alphabetically).<br>
<br>
</span>Click the Name header of the first tab to sort the column by Name.<br>
Click the first memory row with a name to highlight it.<br>
Shift-click the last memory row with a name to highlight the rest<br>
Right-click any highlighted memory row and choose Copy<br>
Right-click the first memory row in the second tab and choose Paste<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Or someone with a dual-band, or tri-band radio might want them sorted by frequency so that the bands are separated into memory blocks.<br>
<br>
</span>Repeat the above sorted by the Frequency column<br>
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> Or someone might want to group all of the entries by Duplex to separate out repeaters from simplex frequencies.<br>
<br>
</span>Repeat the above sorted by the Duplex column<br>
<br>
Jim KC9HI<br>
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