On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 1:57 PM Todd J. Unkefer tunkefer@gmail.com wrote:

I just updated to the new version of chirp today, 16JUN2019. I download saved from radio, edit saved, upload to radio, as I have done 100 times or more. I have 20 saved. I deleted #1, then all frequencies changed to match my 2nd saved frequency. No matter what my first saved frequency is, it overrides all other frequencies in saved and changes ALL frequencies to match what is in the first saved frequency box. The name label fields don’t change at all, but the frequency field does. What can I do to stop this override so all boxes don’t populate with the same frequency? This is maddening.

Hi Todd,

Are you a Baofeng type radio user? If yes, are you mistakenly thinking that the the top (A) and bottom (B) display lines are linked together. They are independent of one another and cannot be automatically linked together.

For example, lets say you have the Memory Display Format (MDF) of the top display line (menu 21/MDF-A) set to NAME and the MDF of the bottom display line (menu 22/MDF-B) set to FREQ. With the A display line selected (the black triangle shaped cursor is to the left in the top display line), then scrolling through channels only scrolls through the 20 channels of the A display line. The channel number selected in the B display line will not change (so neither will the frequency).

Many Baofeng owners mistakenly think the 2 display lines are somehow automatically linked and mistake the unchanging frequency of the B display line as an indication of the frequency for all of the channels of the A display line being the same. This is not the case. It is just the selected bottom channel is not changing (watch the changing of the tiny channel numbers to the right of the NAME/FREQ display of each display line as the A display is scrolled) so the frequency displayed will not change either. Another test would be to set MDF-A to FREQ and scroll through the channels.

If you want them to both display lines to be set to the same channel number, you must manually select the same channel number in each display line. If you want a Baofeng like radio that can automatically SYNC the A and B display lines to the same channel number, you would have to look the tri-band BTech UV-5X3 sold by Baofeng Tech (the radio dealer in the USA). The cheaper tri-band Baofeng/Radioddity UV-5RX3 (and variants) do not have the SYNC feature.

If this is not your issue, then more details about the issue will be required (which radio are you programming, provide before and after images, etc).

Jim KC9HI