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--></style></head><body><div>Since I've been working on getting my system to a linux box, this prompted me to go looking. Currently, for my BCT-15X, I use a windows based program proscan (<a href="https://www.proscan.org/" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://www.proscan.org/</a>) (which works great for me, btw) The only program I can find is a very old BCProgTool (<a href="https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/BCProgTool" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/BCProgTool</a>) which in theory supports quite a few scanners - however it was last update in 2010.<br />(( Question to self: Do I want to see how this works? The video looks workable. ))</div>
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<div>From "Ken Hansen" <<a href="mailto:ken@n2vip.org">ken@n2vip.org</a>></div>
<div>To "Discussion of CHIRP" <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>></div>
<div>Date Tue 5 17 22 08:01:13</div>
<div>Subject Re: [chirp_users] Add-on Modules/Scripts for Chirp ?</div><div><br /></div>
<div id="x524a922d803b4c9"><blockquote cite="86119BBB-D79F-46A4-BA53-34AEFE84EB02@n2vip.org" type="cite" class="cite2">
I think this would be a big task, as currently CHIRP has no built-in support for any scanners from any manufacturer, based on a quick scan of the CHIRP homepage:<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home">https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I am not aware of any publicly-available documentation on how to program a Uniden/bearcat scanner, though I suppose there's likely something somewhere.</div><div><br /></div><div>CHIRP architecture (as far as I can tell from the outside looking in) is not setup to handle trunking groups, digital modes, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>I appreciate the desire to avoid windows, but the alternative would be front panel programming your frequencies into the scanner. I had no problem banging in about a hundred frequencies into a simple Whistler desktop scanner, but all that entailed was typing in each frequency and saving it to memory (no tone, no label, nothing, just frequency they the keypad) - your 'fancy' scanner would take a greater effort.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is a nice looking scanner - it has a nice feature set and covers ham bands from 10 meters to 23 cm - and reminds me of a radio shack scanner I have, the PRO-2051, but they are not the same. I was able to get the required cable and the appropriate windows software to program my scanner, I'd encourage you to do the same.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/scanners/0780.html">https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/scanners/0780.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe ask a windows-running friend to help, programming scanners is, in my experience, typically a "one and done" kind of thing, where once programmed, they are never touched again (or at least very rarely).</div><div><br /></div><div>Good luck!<br /><br /><div dir="ltr">Ken, N2VIP</div><div dir="ltr"><br /><blockquote type="cite" class="cite">On May 17, 2022, at 08:18, KB6LWN - Bruce <<a href="mailto:kb6lwn@qso.com">kb6lwn@qso.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hello Group,</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Just received delivery of a new-old Uniden BC-780XLT</span><br /><span>Trunk Tracker III Scanner, and I'd like to be able to</span><br /><span>program it with my PC (Linux Mint Desktop), and I'm</span><br /><span>wondering if there is a 'module' available for Chirp</span><br /><span>that will allow me to do this.</span><br /><span>Just updated to the latest FlatPak. (Linux Mint 20.4)</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Since I use Linux - I don't have access to run the MS-</span><br /><span>Windows version of the software specifically written</span><br /><span>for this receiver. Which reminds me 'rigctl' seems to</span><br /><span>read the receiver and I have gotten a list of the cmd-</span><br /><span>capabilities using that tool, if that is needed...</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>If there is not a module specifically FOR this receiver,</span><br /><span>perhaps I could get a copy of a module for another unit</span><br /><span>that I might be able to modify for my use.</span><br /><span>Anything is better than going back to Windows, or trying</span><br /><span>to get Wine to work under Linux...</span><br /><span>A Linux native (port) is really needed for scanner Ops...</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>At this point I use Chirp to program my various BTech,</span><br /><span>Bao's, Leixen, and a couple more, and it makes the task</span><br /><span>so much easier. Hope to do the same with the scanner...</span><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><span>_______________________________________________</span><br /><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br /><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br /><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br /><span>This message was sent to Ken Hansen at <a href="mailto:ken@n2vip.org">ken@n2vip.org</a></span><br /><span>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br /><span>To report this email as off-topic, please email <a href="mailto:chirp_users-owner@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-owner@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br /></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>
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