Thanks for the quick reply. 

The FT-8800 manual only devotes a couple of lines to the general coverage receiver.  Basically, it says that the radio will scan 108 up to 999, skipping cellular.  It doesn't appear that the screen shows AM/FM mode; however, Menu item 46 toggles AM Mode on and off.

I was pretty sure that the issue was the mode setting.  I had just programmed the radio in South Fl for a trip up to Lake City in North Fl.  I had overwritten an aircraft band entry with the 146.94 repeater up there.   On the trip up, scan would open the squelch frequently with static generated by cars in close proximity.  I was able to pull up the repeater so the offset and PL set correctly. As soon as I discovered the garbled receive problem and re-entered the info into memory the interference issue was solved.

The previous owner used G4FHQ programming software.  In hind sight I should have done a master reset since he couldn't explain the hyper memory settings or what was stored.  I hope you fix the Skip feature.  I'd like to wait until that works to give CHIRP another try. 

Thanks,

N4KJA



From: Dan Smith <dsmith@danplanet.com>
To:  Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] FT8800R problem when overwriting previously stored out of band frequencies

> All of the entries in the 138 MHz range, that I overwrote with repeater
> frequencies, did not receive properly.  The display showed the correct
> info but the receive was garbled.  If I entered the same info manually,
> that memory location then received properly.  I was wondering if CHIRP
> fails to change some mode setting such as AM?

Hmm, does the radio indicate that it's in AM mode?

You might try deleting the memories and then re-editing them. Just
editing the memory will make chirp try to tiptoe around all of the
settings it doesn't know about. If you do a delete operation (so that it
shows 0.000MHz in grey) it should wipe the entire memory channel and
start fresh. That'd be my first step.

--
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS


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