[users] Re: Baofeng AR-152 power levels damaged by CHIRP?

I just programmed one with CHIRP for a friend a few days ago. I will get his HT on a dummy load and watt meter to see if his power levels match mine. I did not program those two on my bench.

Thanks, but I think to be scientific, you really need to test a radio before and after programming. If you see a difference between those two, *and* have both the original and modified images then that's definitely worth looking at. And again, just saying the power output is different doesn't tell us whether or not it's drive, alignment, etc that is off.

A hardware problem is much more likely to be the kind of thing that is caused by something else, and we humans think "you know, I programmed this with software, so that must be the problem."

--Dan