Thanks Jim. I will try using the F8HP to program it. I failed to mention that I did try to upload repeater info into the radio using RepeaterBook but it ended up the same way as me manually programming it in chirp. I can easily program these repeaters into the radio manually with VFO so that may be the way I go for the HAM frequencies.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:54 AM Jim Unroe <rock.un...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:34 PM ken smith <ken.smit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have successfully been able to use Chirp to upload .csv files etc. All > communications between the software and radio seem to work. However, when > manually loading HAM repeater information, the upload info seems to not > take correctly. For example, I used the software to put in a 2m frequency, > no tone, “-“ offset at 0.60 and low transmit power. After the upload, the > radio shows the correct frequency and memory name but that’s it. The > transmit power shows Medium (which isn’t even an option in the software) > and also shows both “+” and “-“ on the radio screen. When keying the mike, > it shows CT as if there is a tone being transmitted. Something is not > syncing right but I am not getting any error messages. Any help here is > appreciated. > > It is hard to know what you may have done wrong without having access > to the CSV file or the actual "image" sent to the radio. I will do my > best to guess. > > These UV-5R and UV-82 like radios do not use or store the shift > direction or offset in a memory channel. They aren't required. For > this reason, the SFT-D and OFFSET menus only function in VFO mode. > > What is stored in a memory channel is an RX frequency and a TX > frequency. When the RX frequency and TX frequency are not the same (as > they would not be the same for a repeater, odd-split, cross-band or TX > disabled channel), there is a "+-" indication in the upper status > display area. This is to let the user know the RX frequency and TX > frequency of the selected channel are not the same. CHIRP lets users > enter the parameters for a repeater as a frequency, shift direction > and offset, but in the case of a UV-5R and similar radios, CHIRP > computes the TX frequency and stores that in the "image" to be sent to > the radio because that is what it requires. > > Since your radio can display "MID" as a TXP option, you have a radio > with 3 TX power levels. You are most likely incorrectly selecting and > using the UV-5R model when downloading from your radio. The UV-5R > model selection is for a UV-5R like radio with 2 TX power levels. A > UV-5R image with the TXP set to HIGH uploaded to a radio with 3 TX > power levels would be correctly set to MID in a radio with 3 TX power > levels. To work with your radio correctly, you should be selecting > BF-F8HP, which is for UV-5R like radio models with 3 TX power levels, > to program your radio. > > If there is a CT showing up in the left status display area when the > [PTT] button button is pressed and nothing showing when it is > released, you must Tone Mode set to Tone and the radio is picking up > the default 88.5 Hz tone. It should be set to "(None)" in CHIRP and in > the CSV file it would be {blank} (in other words there would be > nothing between the commas (",,"). > > One way to help understand how the fields of a CSV file should look > would be to program some working memories in the CHIRP spreadsheet > style memory editor and export them to a CSV file. An easy way to get > working channels would be to import some from RepeaterBook or load one > of the stock config files. > > Jim KC9HI > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to ken.smit...@gmail.com at ken.smit...@gmail.com > To unsubscribe, send an email to > chirp_users-unsubscr...@intrepid.danplanet.com
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