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.pdfSome 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
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