Hello,
First, I am a lurker who reads almost every posts and who appreciates Chirp in the infrequent times that I need to reprogram my HTs. Thanks to all for your hard work,
My current issue is I am reprogramming a friend's radios (1 Yaesu VX-7R and 2 Baofeng UV-5Rs). My template was an .img file for my Baofeng UV-5Rs. I have an identical one for my Yaesu VX-6Rs.
Reprogramming the Baofengs went perfectly but the VX-7R is driving me nuts.
As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of MURS channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in reserve. So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for NFM. Chirp will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to FM before uploading it.
Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It is unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it works great.
I have attached all three .img files in hopes that someone will point me in the right direction.
BTW, while trying to figure this out myself, I tried using AUTO in the MODE dropdown. The FM would flash then stay but at the very bottom of the input matrix a new LOC 1 would appear with AUTO but that line is greyed out. I saved the image and reloaded it and then Loc 1 showed AUTO but was still greyed out. The old Loc 1 was gone. This does not seem to be normal behavior.
BTW, I am using Chirp Daily-20140719 on a Xubuntu netbook. had the same result using 0.4.0 on the netbook. I just tried it on a Win 8 box and it looks good (line with AUTO is not greyed out) but I'm not going to take the time to install the correct driver on a machine that will never travel with me to a bike race. The Win 8 version is Chirp 0.4.0.
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Best Wishes, Tom
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tom Balaban mototom800@gmail.com wrote:
As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of MURS channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in reserve. So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for NFM. Chirp will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to FM before uploading it.
Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It is unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it works great.
I just took a look at the specs for that radio on the Yaesu website. They don't mention anything about transmitting on the FRS channels or what mode is should be in. Maybe the issue is that you're trying to get the radio to do something it wasn't designed to do.
Tom KD7LXL
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your reply.
It works fine with manual programming, just not with an upload using Chirp. I repopulated the memory location with the VFO version of the frequency that we get assigned to use more frequently and it works fine.
Tom
On 7/23/2014 3:36 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tom Balaban mototom800@gmail.com wrote:
As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of MURS channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in reserve. So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for NFM. Chirp will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to FM before uploading it.
Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It is unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it works great.
I just took a look at the specs for that radio on the Yaesu website. They don't mention anything about transmitting on the FRS channels or what mode is should be in. Maybe the issue is that you're trying to get the radio to do something it wasn't designed to do.
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Tom Balaban mototom800@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your reply.
It works fine with manual programming, just not with an upload using Chirp. I repopulated the memory location with the VFO version of the frequency that we get assigned to use more frequently and it works fine.
Is that in one of the .img files you uploaded?
Chirp has a developer tool that will show you what the difference is between the working and non-working channel. Open the two .imgs files, then go to View > Developer > Diff tabs. It will tell you which bytes are different between the Yaesu-generated channel and the Chirp-generated channel. The next step is to try to determine what those bits do and under what circumstances Chirp needs to set them.
(You can understand how programming a frequency outside of the advertised capabilities of the radio is an edge case we didn't account for during development.)
Tom KD7LXL
Thanks, Tom.
I'll do that as soon as my new cable arrives. Something happened to my current one today and and it will not download. Upload is OK.
Oh well.
Tom
On 7/23/2014 4:34 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Tom Balaban mototom800@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your reply.
It works fine with manual programming, just not with an upload using Chirp. I repopulated the memory location with the VFO version of the frequency that we get assigned to use more frequently and it works fine.
Is that in one of the .img files you uploaded?
Chirp has a developer tool that will show you what the difference is between the working and non-working channel. Open the two .imgs files, then go to View > Developer > Diff tabs. It will tell you which bytes are different between the Yaesu-generated channel and the Chirp-generated channel. The next step is to try to determine what those bits do and under what circumstances Chirp needs to set them.
(You can understand how programming a frequency outside of the advertised capabilities of the radio is an edge case we didn't account for during development.)
Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
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