Does anyone have experience with the UV-17R? Is it just a 5R variant within CHIRP? I don't have one, but they seem like an amazing value with excellent performance.
Bob
Does anyone have experience with the UV-17R? Is it just a 5R variant within CHIRP? I don't have one, but they seem like an amazing value with excellent performance.
There are at least a half dozen radio models that have the UV-17 base name. Unlike the UV-5R that has a boatload of variants that are basically the electronics in a different case and program with the same CHIRP vendor/model selections, these radios are all different in programming, the number of bands, number of channels, menu systems, ect. Vendors make it worse by listing it differently than the name that is actually on the radio making it difficult to know if they misrepresented the radio or you mistakenly ordered the wrong one. And don't be surprised if the manual supplied with the radio doesn't match the radio.
None of the newer 999 channel or 1000 (10 banks of 100) channel radios are currently supported by CHIRP. I don't know if anyone is actively working to develop support for them. I an not actively working on any of them. So if you want/need CHIRP support, you may want to hold off.
Jim KC9HI
Just bought 4, not realizing they arent Chirp supported. Ssighhh... Hopefully soon, there will be support? Am willing to donate one to the Chirp programmers if they need one! Lemme know!
On Fri, Sept 1, 2023, 14:21 Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have experience with the UV-17R? Is it just a 5R variant
within CHIRP? I don't have one, but they seem like an amazing value with excellent performance.
There are at least a half dozen radio models that have the UV-17 base name. Unlike the UV-5R that has a boatload of variants that are basically the electronics in a different case and program with the same CHIRP vendor/model selections, these radios are all different in programming, the number of bands, number of channels, menu systems, ect. Vendors make it worse by listing it differently than the name that is actually on the radio making it difficult to know if they misrepresented the radio or you mistakenly ordered the wrong one. And don't be surprised if the manual supplied with the radio doesn't match the radio.
None of the newer 999 channel or 1000 (10 banks of 100) channel radios are currently supported by CHIRP. I don't know if anyone is actively working to develop support for them. I an not actively working on any of them. So if you want/need CHIRP support, you may want to hold off.
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