I had one follow up question/clarification to this. I thought my UV5-R+ 'design flaw' of automatically changing the transmit channel was the most irritating issue with the radio, anyway glad to hear Baofeng resolved it in later firmware and my new BF-F8HP works as I thought my UV5R originally should.

My question is can the firmware be updated on the UV5-R to a more current revision to resolve this issue? From looking at the following link on miklor.com, the answer appears to be no, but I thought I'd confirm: *Note: The firmware chip is fixed and cannot be re-flashed http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-Firmware.php*.

* BTW, appreciate the email discussion as I've learned quite a bit about the software, programming, drivers, operating system compatibility issues, radios, cables, etc... just by following along here.

Michael W0MTB

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:46 AM, David Buss kd9ebr@gmail.com wrote:

My older UV-82 will go to the chanel that had the last RX. My BF-F8+ and my UV-82HP stay on the channel that I told it to be on. Of course the UV-82's have the dual ptt. I actually like the fact that it keeps the channel I selected, that way if I'm talking on one frequency and the other frequency has a station id, I can keep talking on the original frequency without fear of my radio transmitting on the wrong frequency. I see the benefit of the other as well. Of course I am new to the hobby and don't know any better yet. It just works fine for me at this time.

Sent from my android device.

-----Original Message----- From: Galen Thurber galenthurber@gmail.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:47 Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV5RE+ N5R-213 bug? Dual watch w no priority. Set to slot A, gets RX in slot B reverts to A to TX

ok, thanks

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Galen Thurber galenthurber@gmail.com wrote:

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Yes dual watch still works, but this bug/coding causes TX problems. Person one has radio set to the following A 154.6 Mhz B 446 Mhz TDR is on A is active

Person two has radio set to A 146.52 B 446 TDR is on B is active

Person 2 uses slot B to call 1. Person 1 hears 2 on slot B. ok Person 1 responds to call but radio switches to slot A (its starting position) Person 2 can not hear person 1 because of freq differences.

If someone can clarify my writing then please do

Galen,

What you have stated above is completely clear.

Unfortunately this is something that Baofeng has accidentally or intentionally changed. It began with the release of N5R firmware for the UV-5R series of radios and variants about a year ago. It has just recently started rolling out in the UV-82 radios with the N82 firmware.

This is the way the hardware works. CHIRP can do nothing about it.

The best you can do is get person 2 to say "this is person 2 calling on 446" so that person 1 will know which frequency to reply on.

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