#Chirp programming what is software#
None of the companies that make radios include software for these two very common operating systems. God forbid you try to program a radio on an Apple or Linux computer using manufacturer's software.
Sounds simple, doesn't it?The problem is that radio manufacturers aren't necessarily good software designers. Just hook the radio up to the computer, enter in all your information, transfer the frequency and channel data into the radio, and you're good to go. Fortunately, we have computers to handle all the programming stuff for us. This is good in that it keeps costs down, adds to durability, and allows for waterproofing, but it doesn't make programming them any easier. There are a lot of modes, tones, offsets, and little nit-picky details that have to go into our radios before we can even make a call.On the other hand, radios, especially handheld models, continue to get smaller, lighter, and generally have fewer physical buttons and controls. Nowadays, we have HF, VHF, UHF, digital modes, CW/SSB/AM/FM/MW, repeaters with offsets, repeaters with tones, User IDs, reflectors, talk groups, and who-knows-what coming down the road for next year.
Nowadays, we have HF, VHF, UHF, digital modes, CW/SSB/AM/FM/MW, repeater "Back in my day, radios came with a CW key and a frequency knob, and that was all we needed." -Every Old Ham CurmudgeonOK, that's probably a slight exaggeration, but radios were a lot simpler in the "distant" past, when everything was station-to-station, and most communications were some flavor of HF. "Back in my day, radios came with a CW key and a frequency knob, and that was all we needed." -Every Old Ham CurmudgeonOK, that's probably a slight exaggeration, but radios were a lot simpler in the "distant" past, when everything was station-to-station, and most communications were some flavor of HF.
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