{"id":53,"date":"2019-03-23T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=53"},"modified":"2020-08-29T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:02:31","slug":"chirp-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"CHIRP Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use a Yaesu FT-60 for my satellite radio. It\u2019s a little onerous to manually \u00a0program satellites into it so I use the <a href=\"https:\/\/chirp.danplanet.com\/projects\/chirp\">CHIRP<\/a> application to do the programming.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t use my FT-60 programming cable directly on macOS (my native OS) because it has a Prolific chipset for USB\/serial operation and its driver clashes with the FTDI chipset which is in other USB\/serial devices I use.<\/p>\n<p>I first used a Windows 10 virtual machine (VM) under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\">VirtualBox<\/a> to run CHIRP. This worked fine. But I only use\u00a0Windows 10 sporadically and when I start Windows 10 it nearly always wants to reboot to do an update. This is tedious and slows things down a lot. I spent more time waiting for Windows to update than running CHIRP.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve put a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\">Ubuntu<\/a> VM onto VirtualBox and now run CHIRP quite happily from there. Hopefully Ubuntu won\u2019t insist on upgrading quite so often as Windows 10 does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a Yaesu FT-60 for my satellite radio. It\u2019s a little onerous to manually \u00a0program satellites into it so I use the CHIRP application to do the programming. I can\u2019t use my FT-60 programming cable directly on macOS (my native OS) because it has a Prolific chipset for USB\/serial operation and its driver clashes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=53\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHIRP Programming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[34,28],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio","category-space","tag-radio","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}