CHIRP

kostas trypas wrote:

Goodmorning,

I have a UV-5R radio and i try to use chirp to program it.I can download from radio(so the communication is right) but i can not upload....i Had an excel file which i converted it to CSV and to DAT files.I tried both ways but it does not work.I tried both in windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04...

CHIRP typically does not use DAT files from other radio programming software.

When using a CSV file, it must be in the proper format for CHIRP. You can't just upload any random CSV file into CHIRP.

A good way to see how a CSV file should be formatted would be to download from your radio and then export the newly created tab to a CSV file. Then you can examine the CSV file in a text editor or other compatible CSV file program (a spreadsheet program for example) to see how it is formatted.

Jim KC9HI

Jim Unroe wrote:

kostas trypas wrote:

Goodmorning,

I have a UV-5R radio and i try to use chirp to program it.I can download from radio(so the communication is right) but i can not upload....i Had an excel file which i converted it to CSV and to DAT files.I tried both ways but it does not work.I tried both in windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04...

CHIRP typically does not use DAT files from other radio programming software.

When using a CSV file, it must be in the proper format for CHIRP. You can't just upload any random CSV file into CHIRP.

A good way to see how a CSV file should be formatted would be to download from your radio and then export the newly created tab to a CSV file. Then you can examine the CSV file in a text editor or other compatible CSV file program (a spreadsheet program for example) to see how it is formatted.

Jim KC9HI

When i am trying to save the file that i downloaded from radio i am allowed to save it only as img. file and not CSV....do you have any proper CSV file to send me to use it as basis?
thanks

You can export (different menu item from "save as") as CSV within Chirp. Please try that and let us know.