Exporting to Files – What Each Format Does

Before exporting, remember the rule from How Your Selection Feeds Exports & the Programmer: if your Multi-Select list has anything in it, every export uses the whole Multi-Select list — your current grid ticks are ignored. If you want to export just what’s ticked right now, clear Multi-Select first (Review Multi-Select → Remove All).

Filenames — Read This Before You Export Repeatedly

Unless you’ve turned on Prompt for Rename for a format, most exports save to a fixed filename every time (e.g. frequencies.xml, export.hpe, export_chirp.csv) — which means exporting the same format twice in a row silently overwrites your previous export, with no warning. Only CSV and Excel use an automatically timestamped filename by default, so repeated exports of those two don’t overwrite each other. If you want to keep multiple exports of any other format, turn on Prompt for Rename for it in Export Settings, or move/rename the file yourself before exporting again.

Copy to Clipboard

Copies the same data and columns as a CSV export (User, Description, Short Name, Frequency, Channel, Mode) as text, ready to paste elsewhere.

CSV / Excel

The general-purpose formats — same 6 columns (User, Description, Short Name, Frequency, Channel, Mode), timestamped filenames so repeat exports don’t overwrite each other.

SDR# XML / SDRPlay S1B

Straightforward frequency-list formats for those SDR programs. Both use fixed filenames (see the overwrite note above).

Uniden HPE

Groups channels automatically by site (the User field) into the format’s “C-Groups” — there’s no manual naming/grouping control, it’s automatic based on your data.

Uniden UBC125XLT/C

Capped at 500 rows. If your selection has more than 500 entries, only the first 500 are exported — the rest are silently left out, with no warning shown. Keep an eye on how many rows you’re exporting if you’re working with a large selection.

Radioscan

Always writes exactly 500 channel rows — if your selection has fewer, the remaining rows are padded with blank placeholder entries rather than omitted, since the format expects a fixed-size file.

Whistler

A straightforward text export (name, frequency, mode) with no row limit found.

CHIRP

Uses a richer column set than the other formats, and automatically detects likely amateur repeater entries (by callsign pattern or presence of CTCSS/colour-code data) to include extra repeater-specific fields (duplex, offset, tone, DMR colour code) — non-repeater rows get a simpler set of fields. This detection is automatic; there’s nothing to configure.

Alinco DJ-X100

The one format with real built-in limits worth knowing:

• Names longer than 28 characters are truncated.
• Only frequencies within the DJ-X100’s supported 30–470 MHz range are included — anything outside that range is silently dropped from the export, not just skipped with a note.
• Step size and mode are chosen automatically based on the frequency band (e.g. 8.33 kHz spacing for airband, 12.5 kHz for 2m/70cm amateur).

If you’re exporting a mixed selection (say, HF and VHF/UHF together) for this radio, check your row count afterward — out-of-range entries won’t appear, and there’s no warning if some were left out.