I haven't done any side-by-side tests between the UV-5B and the IC-F14 yet, but not being able to decode a 2-tone page signal is a big strike against the Baofeng right out of the gate. The F14 drives me a bit crazy not having a display, so you don't know which channel you're hearing during scan mode... so I was really wanting the Baofeng to have the same functionality and more. Bummer.
Thanks to all involved in creating and maintaining CHIRP... I had a remarkably short learning curve, esp. since Jim was so fast to reply to my bug.
Doug
On 12/8/2013 2:33 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
Doug,
CHIRP will program a great number of brands and models of radios. Each type or radio (or family of radios) needs a specific driver that matches up to that radio's capabilities. CHIRP cannot make a radio do something that is isn't capable of doing. In this case, the UV-B5 (or any of the Chinese radios that I am familiar with) are not capable of decoding a 2-tone page signal. So you won't see that functionality for the UV-B5 in CHIRP.
You will only be able to use a CTCSS tone or a DTCS code for selective squelch operations. But be careful setting up a receive tone or code. If you don't know how to do it properly, your settings could wind up programming a channel that will never hear anything. Having no Rx CTCSS tone or Rx DTCS code always work (but you may hear other station on the channel that you may not want to).
Jim KC9HI