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[chirp_users] Options not in CHIRP (UV-5R series)
by Julian Gough 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Does anybody know if it is likely to be possible to program options not available through the interface? I have a pair of Baofeng GT-3TP (basically the UV-5R). I want to run 9600 baud packet over them and have found that in the RDA1846 chip: http://www.uv3r.com/images/Schematic-Baofeng-UV5R.pdf there is an option to turn off filtering and pre/de-emphasis. Set register 58 to 023B My current option for doing this is to physically hack into the serial bus, insert a switching chip and use a raspberry pi to switch control away from the radio's onboard microcontroller chip to the raspberry pi serial GPIOs, program this option into the RDA1846 and then switch back control to the radio. Pretty heavy work for something that might be possible in software by programming the onboard controller (using CHIRP). Any guidance very much appreciated. Julian M1CWA -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julian Gough Professor of Bioinformatics University of Bristol Department of Computer Science Life Sciences building 24 Tyndall Ave, Bristol, UK, BS8 1TQ Tel: +44 (0)117 3941211 Web: http://bioinformatics.bris.ac.uk

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Re: [chirp_users] Cambria County
by N4AOF 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

You won't find many receivers that are "good enough" to handle that spacing with both frequencies being used so close together. If this is just an issue with it interfering with your personal scanning pleasure, that's just life; but IF those frequencies are both being used by the same agency, it was very poor planning on the part of whoever decided to use THOSE specific frequencies from among all the frequencies and separate licenses that the county holds. Those frequencies are on two completely different licenses, which were almost certainly originally meant to be two different agencies. It isn't unusual for a city or county government to decide that since they "own" all the licenses issued to their various agencies so they can play mix and match with the frequencies and sometimes the combinations that get chosen don't work very well together. > Those 2 frequencies are EMS Dispatch and and an interop operations > frequency. > ~Bob > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:39 AM, W Paul Mills <AC0HY(a)wpmills.com> wrote: > These receivers are no where near good enough to handle spacing this > close on receive. > > On 08/03/2015 09:14 PM, Bob Burkett wrote: > > Tower is relatively close... PLs are the same > > > > ~Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R / BF-F8+
by Bob Burkett 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

I seem to now have CHIRP programming issues worked out finally!... but now I have another issue! While monitoring a service on 453.5625 I get bleed over from a service on 453.5500. I have entries set for NFN (narrow FM), Any ideas from anyone? Setting or bad radio?? Thanks, Bob/KF3BY On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Bob Burkett <r.l.burkett(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Jim > > I am still having issues with programming my BF-F8+. > > I am having trouble getting CTCSS to program and stay properly. Settings > are > > not staying as I program them. > > > > I am trying to set the following: > > Tone Mode = Tone > > Tone = 141.3 > > Offset = 6.0000 > > Duplex = + > > Any suggestions? Is there a special sequence in Chirp? > > > > Thanks again! > > ~Bob > > KF3BY > > > > Bob, > > Yes... there is sort of a special sequence. > > For example, when you click on 141.3 to choose it, it is not selected > yet. You must either press the [Enter] key or click onto another cell > to make the selection "stick". Until you do this, you can press the > [Esc] key to abort the selection and it will revert back to the > original value. > > A quick way to make sure that you have fully selected everything is to > click on the [Refresh] button at the top of the spreadsheet style > Memory Editor. If after you click this button, the value reverts back > to its original value, it wasn't fully selected. > > Another way to change the settings of a memory row so that you will > know the changes will be 100% selected when you are done editing is to > use the Memory Properties editor. To use this editor, click on a > memory row to highlight that row (clicking on the leftmost Loc number > works best). Then click the [Properties] button at the top of the > spreadsheet style Memory Editor. This will bring up the Memory > Properties editor for that row. Note: An alternative way to select the > Memory Properties editor is to Right-click the desired memory row and > then choose "Properties" from the pop-up dialog box. > > Make all of the desired changes in the Memory Properties editor. When > done, click the [Ok] button and all of the changes will be made > permanent. > > A nice feature of the Memory Properties editor is that you can use it > to edit multiple memories at the same time. To do this you would use > Ctrl-Click and Shift-Click to highlight multiple memory rows. When the > [Properties] button is pressed while multiple rows are selected, the > Memory Properties editor will change the properties of all of the > selected memories at the same time. > > For example, lets say the 7 NOAA Weather Alert frequencies were > imported from the CHIRP stock config file. You would highlight these 7 > memories and then bring up the Memory Properties editor. In the Memory > Properties you would "tick" the box to the left of Duplex to open it > for editing and then set Duplex = "off" (to inhibit TX on these > memories). Then you would "tick" the box to the left of Skip and set > Skip = "S" (to skip these memories when scanning). Then click the [Ok] > button to make these changes permanent. > > Jim KC9HI > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > To unsubscribe, send an email to > chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com >

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[chirp_users] funky firmware
by Peter 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Greetings all, I am a new Ham with a 40 year background in all things electronic. I just picked up new 3 BF-F8+ radios and ended up having to send one back (couldn't program via cable). The replacement came in with different firmware -GRRR!- and an odd/invalid/strange entry in the ABR menu. See attached pic -I hope it is permitted. I can change value to off through 10 using keypad. From that point the odd character goes away 'till the next time I program with Chip to any value above 10. Above 10 the odd character comes back. Chirp allows 0 to 24 as usual and programs without protest for any value 0 - 24 but cant get actual time to go past 10. Any time less than 10 is handled correctly as expected. I reset radio, changed language back to English and then tried to set backlight beyond 10 seconds with no success. Used CHIRP daily-20150702 and an earlier build with same results. Also, the radio type selected was the UV-5R. If the radio had a 'normal' display this would be less an issue but with the inverse display it pushes the usability close to the edge in a negative way! Has anyone seen this behavior? Have I missed a step? Should I consider this a defect and try AGAIN for an exchange? 73 Peter KC3FBB

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Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R / BF-F8+
by Bob Boehme 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Wow that would be too close even on 2 meters.. Too close to even notch it out with a cavity.. From: chirp_users-bounces(a)intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Tourge Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 6:15 AM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R / BF-F8+ Smaller antenna? Like one of those stubby types? On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Bob Burkett <r.l.burkett(a)gmail.com> wrote: What should I expect for the cost! :) On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:39 AM, W Paul Mills <AC0HY(a)wpmills.com> wrote: These receivers are no where near good enough to handle spacing this close on receive. On 08/03/2015 09:14 PM, Bob Burkett wrote: > Tower is relatively close... PLs are the same > > ~Bob > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Tourge <ryan.tourge(a)gmail.com > <mailto:ryan.tourge@gmail.com>> wrote: > > If the adjacent signal is strong enough that will happen. Remember > these are $40 radios. Can you enable PL for that frequency? > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Bob Burkett <r.l.burkett(a)gmail.com > <mailto:r.l.burkett@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I seem to now have CHIRP programming issues worked out > finally!... but now I have another issue! > > While monitoring a service on 453.5625 I get bleed over from a > service on 453.5500. I have entries set for NFN (narrow FM), > > Any ideas from anyone? Setting or bad radio?? > > Thanks, > Bob/KF3BY > -- /************************************************* * Amateur Radio Station AC0HY * * W. Paul Mills SN807 * * Assistant EC Alpha-1 ARES Shawnee/Wabunsee, KS * * President Kaw Valley Amateur Radio Club * *************************************************/ _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users(a)intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe(a)intrepid.danplanet.com

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[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-6R Support
by Rob Ogilvie 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Howdy! I naively purchased a 2015 Baofeng UV-6R as my first radio and have found chirp (Chirp? CHIRP? C.H.I.R.P.?) to not support the radio, which makes programming it from my Mac somewhat problematic. I've scoured the Internet and reached out to as many folks as I could find to see if they had it working, and it appears the 2015 release of the radio just doesn't work with chirp today. I'd like to help fix that. I was a (Java and PL/SQL) developer in a past life and can hack on Python code when I have to. Is there a guide available that describes how to start porting another radio, or is there a developer who is interested in working with me on this? If I need to send my radio somewhere because it's a super dark art, I'm willing to take that step. Somebody started an issue for it here: http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/2761 Thanks! Rob / KG7VBO

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[chirp_users] UV-5R / BF-F8+
by Bob Burkett 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

I have a new BF-F8+ and I am having a problem I can't find an answer for. When attempting to program in a repeater with a 5Mhz "+" offset, the radio displays "+-" Any idea what I may be doing wrong? I need to program most of my channels with CTSS transmit onlytone and a "+" offset. Any tips? Thanks, Bob KF3BY

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