Perfectly in some cases, less so in others. I've been using Chirp to program various radios for several years. However, it is a flexible and easy to operate utility that does what it does well. It is not a end-all, be-all software for programming radios, but then, it does not claim to be. Once you understand CHIRP's limitations (which are documented by the developers) you should bring your expectations in line, and you will not be disappointed. It has worked flawlessly for me on the CCRs and Yaesu transceivers I have used it on, and I am soon going to be trying it with an Icom transceiver. I run CHIRP on Ubuntu on a old HP Pavilion laptop. I find it a great utility for programming the radios it supports. I have used CHIRP on several radios now, and I find that it does exactly what it claims to do - no more and no less. I get a few laughs reading the negative reviews for CHIRP, because it is very clear that in many cases, the reviewers did not go to the CHIRP website and read up on what the software claims to do. Being a Linux user I have a lot of experience with GNU software and and shareware.
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