On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Rich Messeder rich.messeder@gmail.com wrote:
The "problem" is that CHIRP displayed, by default, fields that are "unused", and there was no clue about that. The menu had "Hide Unused Fields" checked, so I figured that I was looking at "used" fields.
I added a note about this on the bug tracker: http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1779
CHIRP kept changing my PL tones to 88.5, and there is no clue why.
I don't want to bother anyone further until I have read further...I still have not run across the reference to the UV-5 that (Tom?) posted a few days ago referring to "The UV5R's internal memory structure does not have "Tone Mode" and "Tone" value fields, like most other ham radios do. Instead, it has only two fields: rxtone and txtone. To activate a transmit tone, the tone's value it stored in the txtone field. To turn off tones, zero is written to this field. So when you set Tone Mode off, the tone value you previously programmed is overwritten by zeros. This is just how the radio is designed--unfortunately there's no way around it."
Here's the reference to specifically what I was talking about: http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/entry/chirp/drivers/uv5...
I think you'll find in the UV-5 manual, if there is one, that tone frequencies cannot be stored for toggling on and off as needed, like you're familiar with on Japanese radios. One possible source of confusion here is that you are attempting the learn the features of a new radio and new programming software at the same time. You might connect a radio you're more familiar with to Chirp to see how it works. I think you'll find the tones behave as you'd expect on that radio, and the confusion here is due to the design of the UV5.
Tom