Baofend has changed the memory layouts of these radios more than once of the last 3+ years. Images from a radio with one memory layout must not be uploaded into a radio with another memory layout. So CHIRP no long allows you to upload an image file into a radio unless a 14 bytes of the firmware version exactly match.
1. Load the image from your old radio into CHIRP. 2. Download from your new UV-82 into CHIRP. 3. Copy and paste the channels from the "old" tab to the "new" tab. 4. Upload the "new" tab to your UV-82.
Jim KC9HI
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:30 PM, B Stone baruchstone@gmail.com wrote:
Dear fellow Chirp'ers:
I am trying to program in a few channels while leaving some channels blank. I was able to do this with a version of Chirp from 2014 but I recently tried to upload my old .img to a new UV-82 and was met with a firmware incompatibility message. In my new .img I set the channels I want to use (0, 3, and 4) and want the rest of the channels to be completely unavailable (if you are on channel 0 and press the up arrow then you immediately go to 2 having skipped 1). I thought the way to do this was to was to set the frequency to 0.000000 but I get an error message about being out of reference. I also tried to use a CSV file to import and saw just the few channels I need but this didn't result in the radio only having those three channels. I am including a screenshot of my old .img in hopes this can be guiding.
I thank you for your time and assistance.
Sincerely,
B Stone