Re: [chirp_users] Settings

2019-11-16 Thread Jim Allyn
On 11/16/19 10:30 PM, Lee M wrote: I ment disable them both Open the radio up and unsolder or clip them.  My brother has a Wouxun he wanted to disable the "flashlight" on so it doesn't get turned on in his backpack, and we couldn't find any way to do it.

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP and OS X Catalina

2019-11-24 Thread Jim Allyn
On 11/24/19 7:15 PM, Jean-Paul Louis via chirp_users wrote: Hello CHIRP developers, Is there any hope for us OS X users to have CHIRP working natively. I don't run MacOS, but I believe what I have heard is that the reason it doesn't run on Mac is that MacOS only comes with Python3.x no

Re: [chirp_users] Chirp under Linux

2019-12-07 Thread Jim Allyn
Cables using the Prolific chipset have always been a problem.  I always buy a cable with the FTDI chipset.  I did recently program a radio with a Prolific chipset cable, so maybe those drivers have been added to the kernel now, too.  There have been fake Prolific chipsets out in the wild that a

Re: [chirp_users] Chirp under Linux

2019-12-08 Thread Jim Allyn
On 12/8/19 6:46 AM, Dennis Wage wrote: As far as I know, and please someone back me up on this. *VOLUME level on ANY radio does nothing during data transfers.* When I first heard that several years ago, I decided it was pure nonsense.  I pay no attention to where the volume control is se

Re: [chirp_users] Patch for Bug #6381

2019-12-09 Thread Jim Allyn
There is a command line program that works with many DMR radios, dmrconfig. It will download from the radio to a text file you can edit with any text editor. Once you have the changes made in the text editor then you can transfer it back to the radio. I have used it with Baofeng and Radioditt

Re: [chirp_users] Chirp under Linux

2019-12-25 Thread Jim Allyn
For me, and for everybody I know, in Linux it "just simply works." When for everybody else, it works, perhaps rather than blaming the program or the OS, maybe you should start thinking, "What am **_I_** doing wrong?" On December 23, 2019 6:59:27 AM PST, Dennis Wage wrote: >I once saw posted

Re: [chirp_users] Error-radio did not respond

2020-02-01 Thread Jim Allyn
On 2/1/20 2:15 PM, Mark Ross wrote: Well dumb me. The cable was not all the way into the radio like everyone said. I had to get mad enough to push with both thumbs! I had to get my Xacto knife out and trim one of mine down a little to get it to go in far enough to work. _

Re: [chirp_users] Tytera TH-9800 picture

2019-01-14 Thread Jim Allyn
On 1/14/19 7:45 PM, Dennis Wage wrote: > I often wondered if I was going to lose hearing or sight and could > choose, which would I prefer. Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind, offered her two cents worth on this many years ago: “Blindness cuts you off from things; deafness cuts you off fr