Are the settings changing in CHIRP or only in the radio?
If you program a repeater in a memory in the Baofeng by using either the keypad or CHIRP and then look at MENU 26 OFFSET it will always show 00.000 because the offset is ONLY use in VFO mode. Transmit and receive frequencies are stored separately in the memories.
If you want to verify the transmit frequency was stored correctly then you have to:
1. Make sure you are in memory mode.
2. Select the memory in the A (upper) or B (lower) display.
3. Set Menu 21 MDF-A or 22 MDF-B (whichever display you are using) to FREQ.
4. Exit from the menu and press *SCAN for less than 1 second to select reverse mode (instead of starting scanning).
That will display the transmit frequency and whatever tone mode is set in the transmit memory and a small R will appear next to +- on the top of the display.
If the frequency doesn't change and you see the small R then that means the channel is simplex.
If the frequency doesn't change and you don't see the small R then that means there is no transmit frequency (this will only happen if you used CHIRP to disable transmit by setting duplex off).
I think at some point I was programming in channel mode. I also saw a some times the file downloaded from the radio was changed when viewed in CHIRP. However, now that I am learning proper programming, the changes(corruptions) are only displayed on the radio. When I download the corrupted file into CHIRP the settings are good.
Last night I spemt a lot of time reading and programming in both CHIRP and manually. I programmed in vhf and uhf frequencies in differant orders (uhf, uhf, vhf. then uhf, vhf, uhf. then vhf, uhf, uhf). What I found was that the tone on ALL frequencies is 100(the lowest tone programmed) and the offset on ALL frequencies is 05.000(the offset with the lowest digit).
I also just learned about the "R" (reverse) button. I am getting the T and R freqencies programmed in but the tone and offsets are still changing.
I think, and I will verify today, that if I only program 1 frequency (T and R) that it will work fine.
I also learned, last night, about downloading and installing the original frequecy file from CHIRP, although I did not see an improvement.
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Now that I see what is happening, even though I can not fix it, I am wondering how I was able to communicate on 2 differant frequencies (uhf and vhf) the other day. This tells me that the radio is not bad, but that something is not programmed correctly by me. ?????????
