CHIRP

                elif setting == "password":

                    newval = self._encode_chars(newval, 4)

                setattr(_settings, setting, newval)

                raise

        query = "http://chirp.danplanet.com/query/rb/1.0/app_direct" \

                "?loc=%s&band=%s&dist=%s" % (loc, band, dist)

        # Do this in case the import process is going to take a while

        # to make sure we process events leading up to this