[chirp_devel] [PATCH] [UV-6R] Adjust Channel Name Length

19 Aug 2016

# HG changeset patch
# User Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com
# Date 1471640983 14400
# Node ID 12ac740220c59eae761287076df64265c3281a8c
# Parent  e4a3c048aacb27e5ded471e3ac6c1c83f85fd26d
[UV-6R] Adjust Channel Name Length
Most other Baofeng radios of this type support 7 character channel
names. It was reported that the UV-6R only supports 6 chararacter
channel names. This patch adjusts the name length to 6 characters.
related to #2761
diff -r e4a3c048aacb -r 12ac740220c5 chirp/drivers/uv6r.py

--- a/chirp/drivers/uv6r.py	Fri Aug 19 16:50:57 2016 -0400
+++ b/chirp/drivers/uv6r.py	Fri Aug 19 17:09:43 2016 -0400
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
     MODES = ["FM", "NFM"]
     VALID_CHARS = chirp_common.CHARSET_ALPHANUMERIC + \
         "!@#$%^&*()+-=[]:";'<>?,./"
-    LENGTH_NAME = 7
+    LENGTH_NAME = 6
     SKIP_VALUES = ["", "S"]
     DTCS_CODES = sorted(chirp_common.DTCS_CODES + [645])
     POWER_LEVELS = [chirp_common.PowerLevel("High", watts=5.00),
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@
#seekto 0x1000;
     struct {
-      char name[7];
-      u8 unknown[9];
+      char name[6];
+      u8 unknown[10];
     } names[128];
#seekto 0x1F40;

    