My radio is not in the list.

The list holds the radios whose CHIRP driver comes with a test image to check against — 325 models plus their other names. A rebadged radio is often the same as one in the list under its original brand.

What happens to names that are too long?

CHIRP cuts them to what the radio shows and drops characters it cannot display; the table shows each name as the radio will.

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Will these channels fit my radio?

Open a channel list, type your radio, and every channel is marked: ✓ goes in as it is, ⚠ goes in with a change (a shorter name, the nearest power level), ✗ CHIRP will refuse — with the reason.

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Where the limits come from

From CHIRP’s own drivers: the bands each radio receives, how many memories it has, how long a name may be and which characters it shows, its tones, DCS codes, modes and tuning steps. The check repeats what CHIRP does when you paste channels into a radio, and it was compared with CHIRP itself channel by channel, 340,275 times.

What can be fixed here

A tone or DCS code the channel does not even use, but the radio does not have (CHIRP refuses those too), is set to the default; a tuning step the radio lacks is changed to one that reaches the frequency. A frequency outside the radio’s bands or a mode it does not have is your call — delete the channel, or keep it for another radio.

Radios with rules of their own

Some GMRS and amateur-only radios have extra limits in CHIRP — which channels may hold GMRS frequencies, the bands they may transmit on. Those radios are marked, because CHIRP may still refuse a channel shown here as fitting.

Before you load it into a radio

The file is for CHIRP, the free programming software — not for the radio itself. CHIRP is what writes the channels to the radio, and CHIRP and the radio decide what they accept; we cannot check that without your radio. Before uploading, download the radio’s current memories in CHIRP and save them as a backup, then look through the channels. Transmitting on some frequencies needs a licence or an approved radio — check the rules where you are. You use the file and program your radio at your own risk.

Questions

My radio is not in the list.: The list holds the radios whose CHIRP driver comes with a test image to check against — 325 models plus their other names. A rebadged radio is often the same as one in the list under its original brand.
What happens to names that are too long?: CHIRP cuts them to what the radio shows and drops characters it cannot display; the table shows each name as the radio will.