RadioID contacts for an Ailunce HD1
Drop user.csv from RadioID, choose countries or a state, and save Contacts.csv. In the HD1 CPS: Contacts › Address Book Contacts › Import Contacts.
The file
The six columns the HD1 CPS uses — Call Type, Contacts Alias, City, Province, Country, Call ID — with the callsign and name together as the alias. This CPS does not read quotes, so commas become full stops; fields are cut to 16 bytes and written in plain English letters, since the CPS shows other letters wrongly. A file with Unix line ends imports as “success” but empty, so the file always has Windows line ends.
In the CPS
Open Contacts › Address Book Contacts, click Import Contacts and pick the file. The import replaces the whole address book. Then Write Contacts sends it to the radio.
What is tested — and what is not
Tested in Ailunce HD1 CPS V3.05: imported, exported back, the same (its export only adds a comma at the end of each row). Not tested: other CPS versions and the HD1 GPS software. 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 programming software runs only on Windows; the file can be made on any computer. Use at your own risk, and transmit only on frequencies you are licensed or allowed to use.
Questions
- Why are long names cut?
- The CPS itself keeps up to 62 characters, but what the radio shows is shorter, and we cannot check the radio. Sixteen is what the other DMR radios here take, so the file stays on the safe side.