RT Systems is a company that exclusively makes programming software and programming cables. They are in GA.
The cables are guaranteed to work with their software and your computer.? Software can be downloaded or sent on a CD.? Cables can usually be used on multiple brands / models of radios.
Do they cost?? You bet!? Are they unreasonably priced?? Heck, no!? Can you get CHIRP for free?? Absolutely!? As they say, "You get what you pay for."
I've tried CHIRP on two different brands of radios.? It didn't work on either radio for me.? I've used RT Systems on all kinds of radios from Anytone to Yaesu and several in between.? They always work the first time, every time.? One time, it didn't.? I called customer service.? It was my goof, not theirs.? We both had a laugh over the radio being smarter than me.? Lol.
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On Sep 26, 2024, at 06:06, Greg Halsey <
ghalsey4@...> wrote:
Interesting! What are RT systems?? Yes, I did forget to download from the radio first, you are right. It's just been many years since I've fooled with these radios. I'll try that. Thanks.
I DO NOT understand why anyone would try to program a UV5R with anything other than RT Systems! I've done anything that can be done with any number of radios of various brands, including my Boofeng UV5R.
I have never had an issue programming any brand of radio with them.
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On Sep 24, 2024, at 19:46, Donald Hellen <
donhellen@...> wrote:
Here's a few things to consider if you haven't already. Since you
didn't provide much information on what you tried. If you already are
aware of these things, then maybe someone else can benefit.
Have you downloaded the memory structure file from the radio first?
Many don't realize this is the first step. You can't import anything
but the specially structured file that was downloaded from the same
model radio (or one you downloaded and changed yourself) then uploaded
it to the radio.
That needs to be done first to set up the file that you're going to
enter programming data into for each memory channel. Save what you
downloaded, even if it has things on it you're going to erase, just in
case you mess something up, so you can go back to this stage.
Then you can copy and paste into that downloaded form you have after
downloading the file from the radio. Be sure you only copy columns
into appropriate columns in your radio. There may be columns that
aren't in the same place as the CSV file has. Or columns that are
different. Don't change the positions of the columns.
Does this help?
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:41:13 -0400, "Greg Halsey" <ghalsey4@...>
wrote:
It does, or it has a UV-5R in the drop down menu of supported radios. My problem is that I can't get it to upload a csv file. It will still be easier than entering it into the radio, but I think I'm missing something.
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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
