[chirp_users] QYT KT8900 startup channels
Radio: QYT KT8900 (no "D" - just the KT8900) CHIRP Version: daily-20181018 (latest I believe) OS: macOS 10.13.6 (but shouldn't matter in this case)
In CHIRP, under Settings > Work Mode Settings you are able to specify "MR A channel" and "MR B channel" as the default channels your radio starts on (assuming the VFO/MR mode is set to Channel). This has worked for me previously - but a while ago something changed. I don't have an exact timeline - in the last 6 months or less I believe.
Screenshot for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt458zbn8t8zx74/Screenshot%202018-11-13%2010.34.16...
MR A channel setting is still "respected", but no matter what I put in MR B channel the radio starts up on channel 1. I tried changing it to other channels (and saving then uploading) multiple times but there is no change. When I change MR A it gets applied, but not MR B.
Any ideas? I went back and grabbed the oldest .img file I had (from May) and it is still happening, so I don't think it's an issue with the image file.
Anyone with a QYT KT8900 that can test this as well?
Thanks!
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:47 PM Tycen Stafford tycen@tycen.com wrote:
Radio: QYT KT8900 (no "D" - just the KT8900) CHIRP Version: daily-20181018 (latest I believe) OS: macOS 10.13.6 (but shouldn't matter in this case)
In CHIRP, under Settings > Work Mode Settings you are able to specify "MR A channel" and "MR B channel" as the default channels your radio starts on (assuming the VFO/MR mode is set to Channel). This has worked for me previously - but a while ago something changed. I don't have an exact timeline - in the last 6 months or less I believe.
All this does is preselects the desired channel when the cloning operation is completed. If you change it to something else after the upload finishes, nothing will automatically change it back.
Screenshot for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt458zbn8t8zx74/Screenshot%202018-11-13%2010.34.16...
MR A channel setting is still "respected", but no matter what I put in MR B channel the radio starts up on channel 1. I tried changing it to other channels (and saving then uploading) multiple times but there is no change. When I change MR A it gets applied, but not MR B.
Are you sure this is not a firmware bug. It is on other radios of this type. My radio with color display raid with 4 display lines will "forget" the channels selected in display lines C and D when the radio is power cycled. This has nothing to do with CHIRP and there nothing CHIRP can do about it. Try it. Select a channel in the B display line and then power cycle the radio to see if it remains the same.
Also make sure there is a channel programmed for the one selected in the work mode settings. The radio can't select a channel that is empty.
Any ideas? I went back and grabbed the oldest .img file I had (from May) and it is still happening, so I don't think it's an issue with the image file.
I'm pretty sure that there has been nothing changed in CHIRP that would affect this. But for the sake of argument, install a CHIRP daily from 6 months ago. If it works, then there must have been a change. Tell us which version works and we'll be able to figure out what went wrong. If you can't find an older version that works, then that confirms that nothing changed in CHIRP and CHIRP is not the cause.
Anyone with a QYT KT8900 that can test this as well?
I've got a KT8900-Mini somewhere around here. I don't know if that is close enough or not.
Thanks!
Jim KC9HI
Thanks Jim! I thought for sure it used to "remember" the B channel but it looks like you're right (as usual - really appreciate your help on here). I went back and grabbed a CHIRP build from January and it still behaved the same way. You're correct also that it remembers the A channel but not B.
Thanks again, Tycen
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:25 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:47 PM Tycen Stafford tycen@tycen.com wrote:
Radio: QYT KT8900 (no "D" - just the KT8900) CHIRP Version: daily-20181018 (latest I believe) OS: macOS 10.13.6 (but shouldn't matter in this case)
In CHIRP, under Settings > Work Mode Settings you are able to specify
"MR A channel" and "MR B channel" as the default channels your radio starts on (assuming the VFO/MR mode is set to Channel). This has worked for me previously - but a while ago something changed. I don't have an exact timeline - in the last 6 months or less I believe.
All this does is preselects the desired channel when the cloning operation is completed. If you change it to something else after the upload finishes, nothing will automatically change it back.
Screenshot for reference:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt458zbn8t8zx74/Screenshot%202018-11-13%2010.34.16...
MR A channel setting is still "respected", but no matter what I put in
MR B channel the radio starts up on channel 1. I tried changing it to other channels (and saving then uploading) multiple times but there is no change. When I change MR A it gets applied, but not MR B.
Are you sure this is not a firmware bug. It is on other radios of this type. My radio with color display raid with 4 display lines will "forget" the channels selected in display lines C and D when the radio is power cycled. This has nothing to do with CHIRP and there nothing CHIRP can do about it. Try it. Select a channel in the B display line and then power cycle the radio to see if it remains the same.
Also make sure there is a channel programmed for the one selected in the work mode settings. The radio can't select a channel that is empty.
Any ideas? I went back and grabbed the oldest .img file I had (from May)
and it is still happening, so I don't think it's an issue with the image file.
I'm pretty sure that there has been nothing changed in CHIRP that would affect this. But for the sake of argument, install a CHIRP daily from 6 months ago. If it works, then there must have been a change. Tell us which version works and we'll be able to figure out what went wrong. If you can't find an older version that works, then that confirms that nothing changed in CHIRP and CHIRP is not the cause.
Anyone with a QYT KT8900 that can test this as well?
I've got a KT8900-Mini somewhere around here. I don't know if that is close enough or not.
Thanks!
Jim KC9HI _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Tycen at tycen@tycen.com To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com
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