Oy. I can see this turning into another obsessive tweakfest, which interferes with my regular obsessive software tweaking, which is a formula for madness.
The increments-of-five approach outlined on the miklor.com page seems to work well, although I started at five for the level-one slot. This gives me a setting of 25 when squelch is set to five, which is the value that used to be squelch-level nine (on VHF anyway) under the original factory settings. Since I almost always kept the squelch at nine, this offers a familiar point of reference in case I can't hear something I used to hear, or vice versa.
The new level-nine squelch setting of 45 turned out to be just a shade too low when I wanted to squash everything but the strongest signals, so I bumped that up to 50 on the VHF side, and 55 for UHF. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I decided to lower the level-one squelch setting to a value of one for both bands, just to keep me from wondering what I might be missing (e.g. simplex or the ISS) with a higher setting.
The problem, of course, is that these settings are fine for my UV-5R/Baofeng A-V85 antenna combination, indoors at home, under current weather conditions. A different location with a different antenna may give me an earful of noise, and the snowpack will eventually give way to leafy trees. At least I hope so. In the meantime, I suppose there's no harm in pretweaking the alternate CHIRP files I keep on hand for traveling to other locations with different repeaters and higher RF noise levels.
So far, I haven't shaved off my eyebrows and run into the street wearing nothing but my socks, so I'm good, mostly.
-----Original Message----- From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of John LaMartina Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 7:04 PM To: 'Discussion of CHIRP' Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux
Another Mystery of the UniV5Rse solved.
John
-----Original Message----- From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:45 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux
Wow. The (so-called) squelch was my only real complaint about the 5R. Problem solved!
You guys are alright. Thanks!
-------- Original Message -------- From: Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com Sent: Sat Feb 21 13:03:48 MST 2015 To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Michael Schwarzchild mszd@charter.net wrote:
Now that the expanded UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch are accessible through CHIRP (thank you!), does anyone have recommendations for good settings there?
Thanks.
Michael, W1NBV
Visit miklor.com
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Squelch.php
Jim KC9HI
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