Hey Chuck, You really stepped in it! AnyTone is supported in CHIRP, but not the 878 HT.
>From the Reddit: The DMR radio uses different parts of that info than CHIRP and many analog radios use. To easily explain this, download your contacts into your AnyTone CPS and export the CSV file to open into an editor. (CSV files are clear text) Next, open CHIRP and import a contact list from somewhere. Then export that into a CSV file to open into an editor. Compare the header row as well as the data either one provides. So, Take the 2 CSV files as shown above and manually populate the rows from the CHIRP to the CPS CSV file export. Then import the new CSV that the CPS likes and upload the new data into your radio. There may be some additional changes to the CPS data in order to get the whole RDT file to be compatible with your radio as well. The way cool TIDRADIO H3 has an alternate firmware called nicFW. TIDRADIO is supported in CHIRP, but not with the nicFW loaded. I did the same dance with the nicFW tool - read from the CSV file and paste into the nicFW programming tool. Tedious, but workable. 73 Dan KJ5IZK P.S. This looks interesting: https://support.bridgecomsystems.com/anytone-878-v2-model-cps-firmware-downloads On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM Chuck Brown via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon. > > I bought an AnyTone 878 HT, not realizing I needed a PhD, an undergrad in > engineering, and black magic to program this thing. > > So, I'm looking for anyone that could sit with me and show me how to > program this handheld rubix-cube supercomputer. I have the RT Systems > software, but the hitch needs to be with the importing and programming the > talkgroups. > > I'll gladly buy someone a burger for helping me. > > If not, this bad boy will be put under the back tires of an oversize load > 18 wheeler. I'd drown it, but it's waterproof. Fire is out of the > question in this drought, sadly. > > So if you can help, I'd appreciate a kind helping hand. > > This is one of those times where I'm actually wishing I had bought the > Baofeng, LOL. > > -- > Chuck W. Brown > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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