Re: [orca-list] [OT] accessibility iof the chirp amateur radio config tool?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

CHIRP is pretty accessible under Linux. I have one of these radios as well, and programming it under CHIRP was fairly easy. I even submitted a patch a few months back to make the settings screens accessible. These let you modify the radio settings without having to navigate the mostly inaccessible menus on the radio.

The only gotcha I'm aware of is that, when you're editing channels, there are combo boxes for the minimum and maximum channels to display, and for some reason these default to 0 and 1. So, unless you set this to 127, you may only see one channel and be massively confused by that. And with lots of channels, there can be a bit of lag rendering the initial table. Might be worth capturing a debug.out and seeing if that can be optimized away, but at the time I had my hands full learning about the new radio, and the delay wasn't huge enough to be overly problematic.

On 1/16/19 10:52 AM, Dave Hunt via orca-list wrote:

I'm shopping for new ham radio gear, and leaning toward the Bao Feng portables. Apparently, these radios can be programmed using the Chirp tool, which is available in the Ubuntu repositories, but, how accessible is this tool, using orca?  (am thinking, 3.28 or later)  Maybe there is a similar tool, with better accessibility, is Chirp isn't a good option? 

Thanks,

Dave  Hunt

Amateur Radio Callsign:  wx1g  

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