Greetings GSARA Members!

At the last club meeting several of you asked for copies of my schematics for the Universal (so far) CHIRP programmer hardware. A link to a PDF on my website with those schematics is shown below.  The link is private at this point but you are welcome to share it with others.  I don’t yet have the “surround” text ready for the website, so the PDF isn’t yet linked to the main part of the website.
http://ad7i.net/main/wp-content/uploads/Chirp-Radio-Interface-180103-01.pdf

Some other good CHIRP links are the CHIRP page itself:  https://chirp.danplanet.com

And the Miklor website has lots of good info about how to work with CHIRP:  http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php

And also good info on how to make a cable specific to a particular radio:  http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Technical.php#progcable

If anyone would like a copy of my CHIRP data file for my dual band mobile please email me (ad7i@ad7i.net) and I’ll be happy to provide it to you by email. Unless you have the exact same radio I’m using (Yaesu FT-7900) would need to cut and paste data from my CHIRP file into a CHIRP file you created from a download of the radio you do have.  What I have in my CHIRP file are 2M and  440 simplex, 2M RACES simplex, about 5 local repeaters, Middletown and Red Bank FA/FD/PD, Marine, WX, local rail NJT, MURS, FRS, GMRS, and what I call the poor man’s antenna analyzer frequencies (144.005, 145, 146, 147, 147.995).   Most of the channels are marked “skip” for scanning purposes except GSARA repeater, races and FA/FD.  Of course you can change any or all of the data, but the data file may give you a bit of a jump start to get local frequencies into your radio.

73,

Paul, ad7i
ad7i@ad7i.net