Bug #1507
closedProblem exporting Baofeng UVB6 frequency list to a .csv file. Is this a bug?
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Description
Hello!! I have a Baofeng UVB6 and have a problem with Chirp. My goal is to use Chirp to upload a list of frequencies to my radio, but I am having the problem detailed below (apologies for so much info, but too much detail is probably better than too little!).
To give the full picture, I have no problems (i) loading chirp on my Windows 7 computer, (ii) connecting to the radio through the USB data cable and (iii) downloading and viewing the radio's current frequency list in Chirp (i.e. the pre-installed factory settings) . Chirp shows me 15 columns of options for settings on the radio, including all the columns I would expect to see (frequency, offset, high/lower power, etc).
This seems like a good start. The next step would be to export the pre-installed factory list from Chirp to a csv file, edit it using MS Excel to add the extra frequencies, and then import into Chirp and upload back to the radio. So I choose "File->Export" in chirp, and then select ".csv" mode, and then choose the file location. This is where the first problem arises - Chirp brings up a list of columns to export, but it only lists the first 6 columns (not the 15 I can see in Chirp before opening the export window)!! To make things worse, if I select "all" and then save the file as a csv file, and then re-open it using Excel, the columns in the csv file are now very different from what I see in Chirp!
For example, the "power" column (where I can choose either "high" or "low") is showing in Chirp itself, but is not showing in the CSV file which I have exported from Chirp! And there are plenty of different columns in the csv file which are not in Chirp. I suspect Chirp is somehow messing up the export function, but I cannot work out how to correct this. Can anyone advise?? Thanks!!!