Jim, Thanks for the clear notes. I am save such notes for each radio in a PIM, so that I always have them with me.

I explored some Miklor web pages as I read your emails. Comment: I saved the link to Review BTECH 5X3 - Miklor but then renamed it to Miklor BTECH 5X3 Review because I am more likely to look for it in that order...Miklor...BTECH 5X3...Review I suggest (without knowing how or why pages are named in html) that the pages be renamed.

Now to the matter at hand.

CHIRP daily-20180204 Looking here, in "MEMory - CHannel Programming" http://www.miklor.com/COM/kc9hi/5RMenus.html and trying to coord that with your comment about 9 settings... "The settings of the following menus are also saved into the target channel. This essentially creates a fully operational simplex channel."

Did not see 23 BCL in CHIRP channel or in settings (5X3). Seems to me that I'd want this to be global? 17 PTT-ID DTMF S-CODE - band-specific in CHIRP? the web page suggests channel-specific (sensible). 19 When to Send PTT-ID - I guess that I could see this as either band- or channel-specific. Looks global in CHIRP.

Did see 33 skip in CHIRP channel, which makes sense to me, but not on web page in "MEMory - CHannel Programming".

I guess that Tone Mode is inferred from CHIRP Tone & Tone Sql? How is Cross-mode implemented? I don't see a setting for it.

So far, I see, per channel 2 Power 5 Wide | Narrow 10-13 CTCSS, DCS 33 SKIP

I intend to become fully conversant with the 5RTP and 5X3, so welcome your comments.

ATB 73 de ~Rich~ NE1EE ARES AEC Short email? No html? Here's why: http://emailcharter.org/

On 2018-02-11 16:54:-0500, Jim Unroe wrote:

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Rich Messeder NE1EE@hotmail.com wrote:

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Update. http://www.miklor.com/BT5X3/5X3-FAQ.php#NewestRadio Here I found Display shows + and - at the same time In Channel Mode this is normal when the TX/RX frequencies differ. In Frequency Mode + or - is displayed based on Menu 25 (Shift)

So all is OK. But when I switched to VFO from channel mode, I thought that I'd find a way to see what the channel is programmed with (Kenwood has a feature to copy memory to VFO.)

NE1EE

Rich,

To see how a memory channel is programmed you just visit each menu that is stored on a per-channel basis and the current setting will be displayed. There are 9 of them. These guides explain where and when each menu is functional.

http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_MenuDef.php

Since we have established that menu 25 and menu 26 are not stored on a per channel basis, what you have to do is see what the TX frequency is. To do that set the Memory Display Format for the selected display line (MDF-A or MDF-B) to FREQ. You will be looking at the RX frequency. Then you can tap the [*] key to put the radio into "reverse" mode thus displaying the TX frequency. Tap the [*] key once again to exit "reverse" mode.

Jim KC9HI