CHIRP to Excel — open a CHIRP channel file as a spreadsheet
Convert a CHIRP channel list (.csv) into an Excel workbook with the same columns — frequencies and DCS codes kept as written, so it opens here again as a CHIRP file. In your browser.
About this conversion
Every channel becomes a row with CHIRP’s own columns, written as text so Excel does not turn 146.520000 into 146.52 or 023 into 23. Edit it in Excel, then drop the .xlsx back here to get a CHIRP file again — the page reads whatever Excel did to it.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
The same list, other ways
The list stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same channels can leave here as CSV or PDF. Before that you can check them against your radio, add ready-made lists and fix whatever CHIRP would refuse.
Before you load it into a radio
The files are for the programming software — CHIRP or the radio maker’s CPS — not for the radio itself. That software writes the channels to the radio, and it and the radio decide what they accept; we cannot check that without your radio. Save a backup of the radio first, look through the channels, and check which frequencies you may transmit on where you are. You use the files and program your radio at your own risk.
Questions
- Why not just open the CSV in Excel?
- Excel reformats it: frequencies lose their trailing zeros or turn into 1.4652E+02, and on save it may use semicolons or drop empty columns. CHIRP then refuses lines. An .xlsx made here keeps the text as it was.