RadioID contacts for a TYT MD-UV380, MD-UV390 or DM-1701
Drop user.csv from RadioID, choose countries or a state, and save Contacts.csv. In the CPS: Edit › Digital Contact › Import.
The file
The four columns the CPS exports itself — name, call type, ID, receive tone — with no quotes, because this software does not read them: a comma inside quotes splits the row. Commas become full stops, names are cut to 16 characters, and only plain English letters are written, since the CPS reads the file in the Windows code page and turns UTF-8 into “Ãœ”. Accents are dropped (Kraków → Krakow); a name in another alphabet becomes the DMR ID.
Before you import
The CPS writes the file over its list from the top and keeps any older contacts below. If the codeplug already has more contacts than the new file, start from File › New or delete the old ones first. It takes at most 10,000 contacts and silently drops the rest, so the file never holds more.
What is tested — and what is not
Tested in TYT MD-UV380/UV390 CPS V1.06, Retevis RT3S CPS V2.41 and Baofeng DM-1701 CPS V1.05: imported, exported back, the same bytes. Not tested: other CPS versions and the larger contact lists these radios take through Program › Write Contacts. The old TYT MD-380 software has no contact import. 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
- Can I put talk groups in the same file?
- Yes — this list holds group and private calls together. Make the group rows with the Brandmeister talk groups page and choose the TYT layout there.