Another thing that confused me when I first programmed my baofengs was the vfo channel mode and frequency modes. If it's in frequency mode then it won't display the names either. You can make channel A or channel B display the name or both slots if you want to, which only shows the names when on the channel mode screen. On the uv82 you have to hold down menu and turn the power on to change modes but most of the others have an easier way to change it.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 12:36 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:36 AM Julian Macassey julian@n6are.com wrote:
I gave up trying to programme my Baofeng UV-5RV2+ using theprevious CHIRP release.
When CHIRP next came out, I thought maybe I could get it toprogramme my radio.
I went through the steps to grab an *img file and load it intothe
radio.
Then I saved it with modifications then downloaded, with awindow saying "cloning".
First off, your terminology is reversed. Imagine that your radio is sitting on your computer. The data goes down from the radio to CHIRP (download) and up from CHIRP to the radio (upload).
Exiting CHIRP, turning the radio off and on does NOT change thefile.
So if the upload "cloning" process completed without any errors reported, then whatever was changed in CHIRP was changed in the radio.
Am I doing something wrong?Most likely. For example, what many UV-5R owners will do when they use CHRP for the first time is to add alpha tags (names) to each of the programmed memories. After they've added the names in CHIRP and uploaded the changes to the radio, they expect to see the names displayed in the radio. When they don't they mistakenly think that CHIRP somehow didn't work. The real problem is that they never changed the radio's Memory Display Format to "NAME" so that the radio would display them.
Using the radio's keypad: Menu 21 (MDF-A): CH | NAME | FREQ Menu 22 (MDF-B): CH | NAME | FREQ
Or from within CHIRP: Settings -> Basic Settings -> Display Mode (A): Channel | Name | Frequency Settings -> Basic Settings -> Display Mode (B): Channel | Name | Frequency
This is most likely your situation.
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