CHIRP channels into a Baofeng DM-32UV
Drop the CHIRP file, a RepeaterBook export or a spreadsheet, and save a .zip with Channel.csv and Zone.csv for the DM-32UV programming software. Each was imported into CPS V1.60 and exported back unchanged.
What goes in
Analog FM channels with frequencies, CTCSS or DCS, 12.5 or 25 kHz, power as Low, Middle or High, and receive-only channels with Forbid TX. Names are cut to 16 bytes and made unique, because zones list channels by name. Names are written in plain English letters, since the CPS cannot show others: Kraków becomes Krakow, and a name in another alphabet becomes the frequency. Zones hold up to 64 channels and are split past that.
Only frequencies the radio covers
The DM-32UV CPS does not check frequencies — it takes 29.6 or 600 MHz without a word. So only channels in 136–174 and 400–480 MHz go in; the rest are listed, not written to the radio.
In the CPS
Open your codeplug (or read it from the radio) and save a copy — importing replaces the channels and zones. Then Public › Channel › Import with Channel.csv, and Public › Zone › Import with Zone.csv. Write to the radio.
What is tested — and what is not
Tested: imported into Baofeng DM-32UV CPS V1.60, which gave back the same channels and zones. Not tested: other CPS versions. The Baofeng DM-1801 Pro uses the same CPS program as the DM-32UV, so the same files fit it. The files go to the programming software, not to the radio: what the CPS then writes to the radio is up to the CPS, and we cannot check that without the radio. The files can be made on any computer, a Mac or Linux too; the programming software itself runs only on Windows. Use at your own risk, and transmit only on frequencies you are licensed or allowed to use.
Questions
- Why no scan lists?
- CPS V1.60 garbles scan list names when it imports them — even a file in its own format comes back with the name replaced by a stray character. Make scan lists in the CPS after importing the channels.