This comment is gold. I am trying to excerpt all these nuggets and build my own "CHIRP, Baofeng UV-5RTP, Kenwood TH-F6A notes.txt" files of notes. My confusion stemmed from the arcane (that's not a bad word) UI in CHIRP. Even hiding "unused" fields didn't clear up any confusion, because I was left with the questions of why these "fields" showed up when I read my radio, but are "unused". I'm beginning to get the picture.
And unfortunately, I have experience with other products that are more straightforward than CHIRP, but it's important to note that they are fairly well "tailored" to each product line. The RT Systems product, for example, is much easier to use. I may eventually settle on CHIRP for all my radios, but only after I develop confidence that I can use it correctly. So far, I have been creeping up on being able to predict what my Baofeng actually get programmed with.
I am also following the discussion about the TH-F6A...
~R~ NE1EE
On 2016-04-25 12:32:-0700, you wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Rich Messeder rich.messeder@gmail.com wrote:
I changed the I changed the tone mode to (None) and set the PL tone to the one I desired. When I need the PL tone, all I need do is enable Tone and ToneSql, and the PL tones are already set.
I agree, this is a great feature of many Yaesu, Kenwood, and Icom
radios, but it's simply not possible on the UV5R.
OTOH, you said "the tone field is a combination of multiple Chirp fields (Tone Mode +...". Maybe that is why things must change, and I have to learn what that means.
The UV5R's internal memory structure does not have "Tone Mode" and
"Tone" value fields, like most other ham radios do. Instead, it has
only two fields: rxtone and txtone. To activate a transmit tone, the
tone's value it stored in the txtone field. To turn off tones, zero is
written to this field. So when you set Tone Mode off, the tone value
you previously programmed is overwritten by zeros. This is just how
the radio is designed--unfortunately there's no way around it.
Tom KD7LXL
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