P.S. Since I started, I just cut and pasted my stations from my
previous radio to my new one. Then I continued to add new stations.
Then the "Settings" were either addressed by the template from the radio
or explained in the manual. WD1E
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Subject: Re: [users] Re: Two hosed Baofengs
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:49:37 -0400
From: Christopher Knowles <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
I have religiously used CHIRP on my HTs (all Baofeng (5-watt,
8-watt, and 10-watt)) since I got my Technician license in May 2018 at
the age of 68. I got my General in July and my Extra in October. I
also got my Volunteer Examiner certification in October. After my HTs,
I bought a 25-watt Lexien "mobile" as my base station and then moved up
to a 50-watt BTECH UV-50X2 mobile. There are features in some of these
radios that can, for all intents and purposes, only be accessed with
CHIRP. It's the greatest!
73s,
Christopher Knowles, WD1E
On 6/20/2024 11:58 AM, Ken Hansen via Users wrote:
Gary,
I'm not sure what's going on with your particular setup, but CHIRP
allows countless thousands of happy users to successfully program
their radios from a wide variety of manufacturers.
Jim's response to your earlier email described how Baofengs operate
inside the radio, and how CHIRP takes the users inputs from its
spreadsheet interface and properly populates the radio.
If you take your GT-5R and read its current contents into CHIRP, are
the channels explained directly or not?
If you save that data off to your HD, then create a brand new setup,
importing from repeaterbook or manually entering several repeater
frequencies into CHIRP then writing them to the radio, do they
display/work as you expect in the radio?
Assuming your radio is properly programmed, the average Baofeng has
decent range (handful of miles) to a repeater when the HT is on the
OEM antenna. If you upgrade to a better antenna (say a SignalStik or a
Diamond/Nagoya antenna) you should have better luck hitting repeaters
a bit further out compared to the OEM antenna.
In my experience, Baofengs are good for nearby repeaters and allstar
nodes, but quite challenging to use simplex (no repeater) in an urban
area (I learned this at a recent parade where the team decided to try
2m simplex, and I couldn't hear most of the stations along the parade
from my parade route location).
Other, major brand, HTs will undoubtedly perform better, but most HTs
come with antennas designed to fit in the box, not to maximize the
performance of the radio in the box.
Good luck,
Ken, N2VIP
On Jun 19, 2024, at 09:36, Gary via Users
<[email protected]> wrote:
After much deliberation, I have to ask an honest question: what is the
purpose of Chirp? To be fair, all I have been using it for is my 2
Baofengs. I have a Wouxun KG-Q10H, but use its own programming
software so
far because Chirp hasn’t picked it up yet. But if hooking up my ‘Fengs to
Chirp does nothing more than populate a channel list with freqs, or
change
the messages, maybe you can explain what Chirp really does, what it’s
useful for. What are memories for if they can’t be programmed with Chirp?
Why are the other settings there?
It seems to me that, at least with Baofengs, Chirp is only useful for
loading the radio with a list of downloaded repeaters…after that, each
channel has to be manually “tuned” in VFO mode in order to process
the tone
and split, at least. The memory list is just there for look-up. Am I
missing something here?
And the radios themselves seem to forget, or change even the manual
settings. I have no idea on how to make individual frequency settings
stay
after programming them. In Memory mode, in VFO mode, nothing stays as it
was set.
I guess it’s time to throw these junkers in the trash and actually spend
some $$ on a real radio.
73,
-= N4YVN =-
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