CHIRP

Greets.

June 22nd 2020.
I did test with Actual american zipcodes, and it works for me. Completely useless, but it works. (90210, and a reserve one that I took from the report number in case the actual county ID was used to label the pdr reports generated.)

And tested queries at radioreference. (And double checked a dozen countries while editing this)

The entirety of this problem is that radioreference allows searches by Zipcodes , County and a few other options Like Metropolitan areas etc. .
The options change by country.

Contrary to many databases they don’t seem to equate all the types of postal identifiers, so only real Zipcodes can be found by a zipcode search.
(Note The . Radioreference Website does not allow searching by postal code in canada, so may not actually have the information.)

Chirp ONLY offers to search by Zipcode.

Adding a County search would fix Canada
Adding a Region search would fix many countries, but not canada :) (This seems to be the default for the small countries with a single grouping)

So I’d suggest adding a pull down between Zipcode search, county, and Region. I think that would fix most countries.

P.s. I’m willing to do the entire research and check every listing To see if those 3 options would cover every countries. Might need a fourth, but I’d be surprised.

Jp

Tested the July 11th release.

No improvement.

Just keeping this active :)

Tested the july 22nd

Also, 4941 was a different (tho similar sounding issue) where a specific Zip code in Washington was buggy..

My issue is that there are no Zip Codes outside of the Us, and as long as Chirp will not provide a query by something other than a Zip Code, we can’t use it.
(Well, not the local frequency imports)

Yes, absurd that no one has tackled this... so I'm on it. Thank goodness it's open source.

A B wrote:

Yes, absurd that no one has tackled this... so I'm on it. Thank goodness it's open source.

Coming along. Probably a few days away from a pull request.

This is completed - for Canada!

The radio menu now has a submenu for RadioReference.com under which you can select Canada or USA. Inside the "Canada" option, you select Province and "county" (which is actually a mishmash of "Census geographic units" and Municipalities).

Currently excludes provincewide systems - but some ambitious human could probably take care of that.

I haven't pulled out a radio to test with, but import works well.

Enjoy! Pull request has been sent!

Mark Leigh wrote:

This is completed - for Canada!

On my version, radio menu now has a submenu for RadioReference.com under which you can select Canada or USA. Inside the "Canada" option, you select Province and "county" (which is actually a mishmash of "Census geographic units" and Municipalities).

Currently excludes provincewide systems - but some ambitious human could probably take care of that.

I haven't pulled out a radio to test with, but import works well.

Enjoy! Pull request has been sent!