Radio Preppers

General Category => Technical Corner => Topic started by: Jonas Parker on February 21, 2013, 12:24:24 PM

Title: Programming your ham radio
Post by: Jonas Parker on February 21, 2013, 12:24:24 PM
 Programming your ham radio
Getting into amateur radio and need software to program your radio? Here's the place to go:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home

CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your amateur radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way to interface with multiple data sources and formats.

To get started:

    Download CHIRP for your platform
    Check out the Documentation
    Join the mailing list!


Supported Radio Models

Alinco

    DR-03T
    DR-06T
    DR135T
    DR235T
    DR435T
    DJ596T
    DJ175T

Baofeng

    F-11 (in daily builds)
    UV-3R
    UV-5R

Icom

    IC-80AD
    IC-2820H
    ID-800H
    ID-880H
    IC-208H
    IC-2200H
    IC-91/92AD
    IC-V/U82
    ID-RPx000V/RP2x
    IC-2100H
    IC-2720H
    IC-T70
    IC-T7H
    IC-T8A
    IC-Q7A
    IC-W32A
    IC-746
    IC-7200
    IC-7000
    ID-31A
    ID-51A (in daily builds)

Jetstream

    JT220M

Kenwood

    TH-D7A/G
    TH-D72
    TH-F6A
    TH-K2
    TK-7102/8102/7108/8108 (in daily builds)
    TM-271A/281A
    TM-D700
    TM-D710
    TM-G707
    TM-V7A
    TM-V71A

Puxing

    PX-2R (UHF)
    PX-777

TYT

    TH-UV3R
    TH-UVF1

Yaesu

    FT-60R
    FT-817/ND
    FT-857/D
    FT-897
    FT-1802M
    FT-2800M
    FT-7800R
    FT-7900R
    FT-8800R
    FT-8900R
    FTM-350R (in daily builds)
    VX-3R
    VX-5R
    VX-6R
    VX-7R
    VX-8R

Wouxun

    KG-UVD1P/UV2D/UV3D
    KG-UV6D/UV6X

Title: Re: Programming your ham radio
Post by: gil on February 21, 2013, 12:28:54 PM
Nice one Jonas, thanks!

Gil.
Title: Re: Programming your ham radio
Post by: Rob_ma on February 22, 2013, 10:42:50 AM
They are working on more models all the time. Not all features in all radios are supported yet but it is a great start toward a universal programmer. You can loan radios to the developers to get support for that model.

- Rob
Title: Re: Programming your ham radio
Post by: deanathpc on February 22, 2013, 06:43:08 PM
That is awesome!!! 

I'm all about open source software!