I think you mean CHIRP.  I just took one look at the code that reads 
and writes the radio (since it is not accessible on the Mac) and 
recoiled in horror.  It’s pretty incomplete.

I have asked the KG-UV Commander author, Jim Mitchell, if he’d be 
willing to supply me with more complete programming instructions.  
Since I just sent the email last night, I dunno if he’ll talk to me 
or not.

It’s easy to read/write the radio on Mac and Linux since UNIXes are 
designed to make serial port access easy, so cooking up a CLI app 
that can read the KG-UV Commander CSV files (and perhaps those of 
CHIRP as well) should be quite manageable.

I’m willing to write it in such a way that data types and callbacks 
for a GUI exist, but I’d either be writing in platform-independent C 
or or Python, so anything written would have to interface with that.  
Preferably in such a way that changes to the underlying code need not 
require large changes to the GUI since I have little desire to 
actually learn the Windows API which makes me want to lpcsVOMIT.

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:06:40AM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>The Wouxun software is sort of accessible, but you do have to click 
>the mouse pointer in the channel table in order for regular Windows 
>keys to work, i.e. tab and shift+tab and so on. Also, the form 
>labels aren't right, so you have to sort of keep track of the 
>settings.
>
>I haven't gotten the KG-UV Commander software to work myself. So 
>far, the Linux program that works also from a Windows command line 
>and is manipulated via CSV files has been the best option for me.
>--
>Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY