On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 1:27 AM Bill Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > New subscriber here with a BTECH MURS-v1 question. > > My application involves emergency neighborhood communications in a > spread-out, semi-rural area. Being able to drop squelch to the bare minimum > would be helpful in order to get the best possible range. Unfortunately, the > default carrier squelch thresholds on this radio appear to be relatively > high, even for Squelch #1. At least that’s my subjective impression. > > So I tried adjusting them with Chirp's Service Settings dialog. My changes > appeared to load onto the radio fine, and I offloaded them back to verify. > They came back as I had set them. > > However, my changes seemed to make no difference to the radio’s actual > carrier squelch behavior. Even a threshold of 0, which I would have thought > would defeat squelch altogether, made no perceptible change in squelch > behavior when the corresponding squelch ID was selected. > > This behavior is identical to that described in Bug #5333, and that was also > a BTECH, though a UV-5X3 rather than a MURS-v1. > > Thanks a bunch for any thoughts or suggestions! > > Cheers, > —Bill
CHIRP can't make a radio do something that it doesn't support. The BTECH MURS-V1 support was developed from the BTECH GMRS-V1 support which was developed from the Baofeng UV-82 support. The UV-82 supports adjustment of squelch thresholds so that support was transferred to the GMRS-V1 and eventually to the MURS-V1. It was just assumed that the BTECH models supported this feature. Apparently they do not. Jim KC9HI _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list [email protected] http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to [email protected] at [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
