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<p>Thanks to the Chirp developers for supporting this project. There
was a bit of a learning curve for me, but I finally got three of
my radios programmed using Chirp. (I had been using RT Systems
before but switched to Chirp when I switched my systems to Linux.)
I recently moved to Alaska so I've had to not just rearrange
channels, but do a complete reprogram of all repeaters, nodes, and
simplex frequencies.<br>
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<p>To any other fellow Chirp-newbies out there this was the process
I used:</p>
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<li>Find cables that worked with my radios (the RT Systems ones
wouldn't),</li>
<li>Download what was already programmed in my radios,</li>
<li>Export to a CSV file so I would have the formatting right,</li>
<li>Work with the new channels I wanted in LibreOffice:</li>
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<li>Change the layout of my spreadsheets from the way RTSys was
arranged to the way Chirp is laid out,</li>
</ol>
<li>Paste values into the CSV exports, <br>
</li>
<li>Import into Chirp,</li>
<li>Upload into the radios,</li>
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<p>I still have an Icom Ht that I'm having communication issues with
(no pun intended), but once I get that worked out I should be in
business. Anyway, thanks to the developers for making an open
source and cross platform programming option.</p>
<p>73,</p>
<p>Brandon Clark, KL7BSC<br>
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