Re: [chirp_users] How can I use Chirp to re-use One Master File for multiple Radio Brands & Models?

2019-06-24 Thread Dave Gomberg
At 11:28 PM 6/23/2019, Fred Erickson wrote: >I don't think Excel was better than other spreadsheets - Borland >Quattro was nicer and available in text mode as well as Windows. >Microsoft just bought out (or out advertised) all the >competition...seemed to me. No, they did something even more anti

Re: [chirp_users] Rules, Radio capabilities, and CHIRP capabilities

2019-06-24 Thread Todd J. Unkefer
Very good point, My situation, I work on film sets, sometimes internationally. In my particular case, I need to monitor different bands while being able to transmit on others, carrying multiple radios in Belize in the summer is not an ideal scenario. I perceived the mail list to be a last resort

Re: [chirp_users] How can I use Chirp to re-use One Master File for multiple Radio Brands & Models?

2019-06-24 Thread David Evans
Libre Office has always worked well for me. Free also. Thanks, David, kd7...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 07:39 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Good news, Dan - for Windows users that is. > > Gnumeric is now available for Windows 10. > https://yepdownload.com/gnumeric > > If you want some softwar

Re: [chirp_users] How can I use Chirp to re-use One Master File for multiple Radio Brands & Models?

2019-06-24 Thread Christopher Knowles
For all Windows users I would recommend Calc from LibreOffice.  It is free and part of a suite of applications more versatile than Windows Office.  Chris, N1CAK On 6/24/2019 10:37 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Good news, Dan - for Windows users that is. Gnumeric is now available for Windows 10.

Re: [chirp_users] How can I use Chirp to re-use One Master File for multiple Radio Brands & Models?

2019-06-24 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Good news, Dan - for Windows users that is. Gnumeric is now available for Windows 10. https://yepdownload.com/gnumeric If you want some software that's fast, I recommend Gnumeric and Abiword. Very small size programs but do what most people need to do, and they work very fast. Hmmm, just like CH

Re: [chirp_users] Rules, Radio capabilities, and CHIRP capabilities

2019-06-24 Thread Christopher Knowles
Point well taken.  We are not a group of enforcers; but we are a group of educators.  We should neither encourage nor discourage behavior.  But we should take the opportunity to educate.  Every radio operator, regardless of jurisdiction, should know the rules and make a conscious choice as to w

Re: [chirp_users] How can I use Chirp to re-use One Master File for multiple Radio Brands & Models?

2019-06-24 Thread Dan Clemmensen
Visicalc was first. It was the killer app for use of the PC in the office. There is no need to pay for a fancy spreadheet to use CHIRP. They are bloated and complicated. I am a free software fanatic, so I use Gnumeric. It has all the capabilities you need for use with CHIRP (and pretty much anythi

[chirp_users] Rules, Radio capabilities, and CHIRP capabilities

2019-06-24 Thread Dan Clemmensen
Colleagues: Our community is interested in three different things, and I feel we need to do a better job of separating them, because different folks have different situations. Rules: we are not all US Hams. Some are not US and some are not Hams. the rules and regulations differ by jurisdiction and

Re: [chirp_users] Transmit UV5r to FRS

2019-06-24 Thread Anthony Crespo
Agreed and well stated! On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 1:56 AM Ed Sherlock wrote: > C'mon, folks. Lets get real. > > In a life or death scenario, I'll use any radio, on any frequency, to > summon aid. Afterward we can deal with legal. > > The medical certifications I held as a field qualified member of t