CHIRP

You'll need to tell me which channels in your image are supposed to be TSQL in order for me to be able to help.

Also, if you program channels in TSQL mode in CHIRP are they accurately reflected on the radio as TSQL mode?

Hi Dan. Wow. Super fast response! Thanks. Good suggestions.
I updated the channel (101 in this case) with TSQL of 67.0 and
uploaded to the radio and verified that the radio was programmed
correctly. Then downloaded from the radio and channel 101 is showing
TSQL of 67.0. Strange. I wasn't expecting that. The radio had been
programmed with the RTS driver originally.
-John K7TY

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com wrote:

Okay, but again - which of the channels on your sample image should be TSQL but aren't detected in CHIRP? Is 101 an example? If you can upload an image that has one channel "fixed" (but no other changes) that would be helpful so I can try to see the difference.

Channels 101 thru 109 have TSQL in the radio. That "bad" CHIRP image
from the radio shows no TSQL for any of them. I tried adding TSQL to
channel 101 in CHIRP as a test and it correctly programmed the radio
and showed TSQL when doing a fresh download.
-John

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com wrote:

Ah, okay it looks like the RTS software must be programming all the tones in as "custom" instead of the standard tones. Again, if you could tell me what channels are supposed to be set to, I'd be able to tell if you're using actually non-standard tones or if they're just programming the standard ones as "custom". I dunno why they would do that, but... CHIRP only supports the standard channels and that's why it's not recognizing that the channels are in TSQL mode.

They are all standard tones programmed for the channels.
Ch 101 67.0
Ch 102 71.9
Ch 103 74.4
Ch 104 82.5
Ch 105 85.4
Ch 106 77.0
Ch 107 79.7
Ch 108 110.9
Ch 109 114.8

They look like standard TSQL tones on my RTS for the 778. I don't see
a RTS option for using "custom" tones.
-John

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com wrote:

Okay, they're configuring the radio to store the tones using the "custom tone value" fields instead of the indexed standard ones.

I can see about making CHIRP try to honor those if they're present and set to standard balues, but they also don't seem to be setting the flag that indicates that they should be used. So no promises, but I'll let you know here if I have something to try.

Thanks Dan.
-John

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com wrote:

Dan, I did a little more experimenting and found that the latest version of
the RTS 788 driver seems to have fixed the issue. I can now program the
radio using RTS with TSQL set and CHIRP downloads it preserving the
settings. (And FWIW vice versa.) So I think all is good.
Thanks for the support.
-John

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM John Beaston john@beaston.com wrote:

Thanks Dan.
-John

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM Dan Smith redmine@chirpmyradio.com
wrote: