Excel to CHIRP — a spreadsheet of channels as a CHIRP CSV
Convert an Excel channel list into a CSV that CHIRP imports: CHIRP column names or ordinary ones (RX Freq, TX Freq, CTCSS, Name) are recognised, and Excel’s damage is undone. In your browser.
About this conversion
Columns are recognised by name — CHIRP’s own (Location, Frequency, Duplex, Offset, rToneFreq…) or the usual ones in other programs and sheets: Channel, Name, RX Freq, TX Freq, CTCSS Encode, CTCSS Decode, DCS, Mode or Bandwidth, Power. A transmit frequency becomes CHIRP’s duplex and offset; tones and DCS codes become its tone mode.
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
- My sheet has the TX frequency, not an offset.
- That is fine: the offset and direction are worked out from the two frequencies, and a far-apart pair becomes a split channel.