Converting from CHIRP to nicFW SPI App
Added 2025-06-20 12:07:10 +0000 UTCComments
And this is EXACTLY why I have nothing to do with CHIRP.
Marcus Dudley
2025-06-30 00:57:36 +0000 UTCJust to note, and in case this helps anyone out, it is in no way as easy as this if you use repeaters or if any channel has an offset - it's a WAY more manual process. Just kinda making my notes below on what else people also have to change for both the TD-H3 and RT-900 to take a .CSV file from Chirp and get it to work: For the +/- offset Chirp uses TWO columns (one saying if it's + or -, the other with the + or - value itself); H3 and 900 uses ONE column for ths, so you need to use a formula in Excel to combine those into one column. . So I used the below formula in Excel: =IF(D2="+", C2+E2, IF(D2="-", C2-E2, C2)) Then that new column you made can be pasted in directly for the H3/900. Then for Chirps "rToneFreq" and "cToneFreq" columns (which in Marcus's software is "RX_Tone" and "TX_Tone"), is also different. Chirp puts a default "88.5" value in there (which I believe should be thought of as 0/Off/None), and the H3 uses "Off", and the 900 uses "None" - so make sure you change those accordingly. Very similar to the above for the Tone on Rx and/or Tx. Chirp uses three columns here: Defining if there is a tone is both Rx and Tx is called "TSQL"; and if there's only a tone (usually only on the Rx side) that one is called "TONE". The column names for the tone for the Rx and Tx in Chirp is "rToneFreq" and "Tx cToneFreq"; Marcus calls those "RX_Tone" and "TX_Tone", and there's NO actual "Tone" column defining which mode unlike chirp (hopefully that makes sense). Again like above both the H3 and 900 programs use a different off/none delineator: H3 uses "Off", 900 uses "None" - so you have to put in all those manually as well. ALSO: When Chirp has a TSQL value (where both the Rx and Tx would be the same, it does NOT fill in the "rToneFreq", ONLY the "cToneFreq" - so you have to manually go through and copy from one column to another on the H3/900 files. Where Chirp has it marked as Tone, that of course only has the value in the ONE column and should stay that way. TIP: if you have both the H3 and 900 like I have, do one first (with Off or None and the tones duplicated where needed), then paste into the other one and simply do a find and replace to change to/from Off to/from None. Last, you'll have to figure out the Bandwidth column. In Chirp that seems to be set as the "TStep" I think? And on the H3/900 the Bandwidth column is set to "Wide" or "Narrow". I don't know enough about the USA regulations for all the wide variety of channels I have saved, so I had ChatGPT/Google Gemini AI do that part for me (which hopefully it didn't screw up). PLEASE let me know if I screwed up anything above. I'm still VERY new to all this - but just thought that my notes might help others as it's quite a daunting process. I'm going to hate the day when I want to update these again.... (still have to add like 15+ repeaters from a nearby county at some point...). ..."Only" took me 2.5 hours to learn this and re-format my Chirp CSV for the H3 and 900 lol (and for my RT-880 which is again in a totally different format than the others ;)
Dochartaigh
2025-06-29 23:42:29 +0000 UTChi i 'm a new ham less than six months in the hobby. I tried converting a csv I had with repeaters in it but it wouldn't load after the conversion. I don't want to bug Marcus with this but is there anybody else who could help me out?
Raymond Nicholson
2025-06-23 00:26:20 +0000 UTCThank you!
Trey Wood
2025-06-22 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
