On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 13:05, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Three years later, I finally find a reason to try and transmit, having
forgotten that I disabled TX. I grab a new CHIRP (next-20231003), find that the recommended model is the Radioddity UV-5RX3, and have at it. Turns out I can program up the channels and edit a few of the settings page entries, but I:
- cannot re-enable TX on either band listed
- change the greeting messages
This is because some of the latest radios have some issues when reading/writing to the Aux memory area that the current CHIRP-next is trying to avoid. Using the legacy CHIRP (or one of the earlier CHIRP-next) version on one of these radios will allow the radio to blank out or scramble it Aux memory area.
I have been developing a work-around for the problem. Two weeks ago I attached what was my proposed fix to issue #10505 and have been waiting for feedback from testors. So far there has been none. In the meantime I have been doing my own testing which uncovered additional behavior that needed to be addressed. This latest version was just attached a few minutes ago.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/10505#note-102
Jim KC9HI
Many thanks for the explanation Jim. I had seen some of the chatter about the Aux area and the uv5rtool uploader etc., but hadn't quite connected the dots. Kudos for your work on this!
Graham