Basically you’ve said it all - You get what you pay for! You on the Titanic dodging icebergs in the North Atlantic without a compass. The tragedy of it all is that you’re wasting time and your own money and producing nothing.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 8, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Scott Lopez <scot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you do realize that we are end-users like you and not paid technical support > that jump at your every request. chirp is an open-source labor-of-love by > people who want to contribute their time to the project. > > as someone who has almost 40 years in IT and two degrees it didn't take me > very long to figure out how to get chirp working on my macbook. no, it isn't > an 'official' mac application, that's because registering as a developer > costs money, so you have to jump through a few extra hoops to get the > application to work on a mac. > > 2. check your security settings and make sure the application has access to > your full disk. > 3. you're right, it can't import from repeater book desktop. no one wrote > code to do so. feel free to take up the cause and write the code yourself. > 4. don't overwrite channels 1-4 in the chirp grid. start with 5 and go on > from there. > > you're right, they were pretty simple answers. > >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:25 AM JOHN E BECK Sr <kd2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> CHIRP IS NOT fully functional on a MacBook Pro Big Sur 11.5.2. What do I >> need to do in order to use this product on my MacBook (other than what you >> outlined below)? >> >> Also, in my original e-mail there were three other issues which were not >> responded to. They are: >> >> Issue 2: When attempting to save the CHIRP grid, I run into all sorts of >> problems in that it does not recognize the file directory structure on the >> MacBook, and doesn’t allow me to save change to my desktop or other >> directory. >> >> Issue 3: I maintain my ‘channeled repeaters’ from the Repeater Book >> (export). CHIRP does not allow me to import changes from my Repeater Book >> desktop. >> >> Issue 4: I have the 2M and 70cm calling frequencies programmed into my >> BF-F8HP channels 1-4 respectively. The import Function of CHIRP overwrites >> this data causing me to re-enter them again manually. Is there any way >> around this? >> >> >> I know very little about programming my F8HP and the instruction manual is >> very poor. To that end I must rely upon CHIRP and I must say that I am very >> frustrated in trying to get a straight answer to relatively simple >> questions. >> >> I have worked in IT for over 50 years and have an BSE degree. I do not >> care for casual responses or assumptions that your client base is >> uneducated. Most of your messages and responses within this group are, at >> best, cryptic and often make unfounded assumptions but, then again, you ge >> what you pay for. I really have difficulty in trying to understand what it >> is that you are trying to accomplish. >> > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to John E Beck at kd2...@gmail.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to > chirp_users-unsubscr...@intrepid.danplanet.com
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