I want to utilize as many of my memory channels as possible here. There will be three channels of wasted space then! Baofeng UV-5rs don’t have a lot of memory to begin with, so this is bad. This means if I turn on my radio and put it into memory mode, it will start with Channel 4.
You’ll notice that on the left side of the above image, the blacked-in numbers start at 4. Only the ones I can use with my plugged-in radio are available. That’s why a lot of those repeaters in the image above aren’t selectable. Remember at the very beginning where I entered in what type of radio I was using? CHIRP uses that information to automatically grey out any repeater it knows the radio cannot accommodate.
This shows me all the 70cm repeaters around Nashville I can access with a Baofeng UV-5R. This is just the way things look initially. The first time I used CHIRP, I remember thinking the software was broken. You will be presented with a blank screen upon initial setup. If you’re downloading CHIRP from anywhere else, you really don’t know what it is that you’re getting until you open it (and maybe not even then).Īfter you walk through the installation steps (very simple) you’re need to open CHIRP.
The safest place to download CHIRP is directly from the site here: You can do quite a bit with this software, but we’re going to look at the meat and potatoes of what it is you actually need. I’m going to show you how to program your ham radio with CHIRP, focusing just on the essentials. It’s open source software and works with predominant PC operating systems (easiest with Windows). You don’t want to mess up your radio, and there are so many settings to change it can be downright terrifying.ĬHIRP is free software that manages a ham radio’s address book. If you’ve downloaded it though, it can quickly prove to be rather daunting. If you’ve purchased a ham radio, you’ve probably heard of the programming software CHIRP.
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