On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Dave C cavanadd@frontier.com wrote:
A friend and I have Baofeng H/Ts that we have been using for the past couple of weeks. They are all programmed with a Chirp file he put together with all of the local repeaters, plus a couple of simplex channels he uses for his church security. The security channels are on channel 0, 1 and 2. When I copied the Chirp file into my Anytone mobile, I couldn't hit the repeaters until I figured out all the channel numbers were offset by +1 number on the Anytone. Apparently the Anytone doesn't want to have a channel #0. Once I understood what happened it was easy enough to offset the channel numbers in the Anytone file to get them where they were supposed to be. I was wondering if this was normal for some radio memory registers to start with "0" and some with "1".
Also my Anytone Chirp file sometimes hangs up or freezes, while I haven't had any problems with the Baofeng Chirp files. It usually freezes during a cut and paste operation or during an import or operation. Not a huge problem but sometimes annoying. Should I be downloading new daily Chirp builds?
Thanks Dave KG7RBQ
Dave,
Of the 5 radios that I program with CHIRP, 3 start the channel numbers with "0" and 2 start the channel numbers with "1". So, yes, this is normal. So don't program channel "0" with anything that you would want to be common amongst all radios.
Jim KC9HI