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Trying to help

Thread starter mrstmlewis
Start date Mar 20, 2018

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mrstmlewis

Newbie

Mar 20, 2018

Hey all. Husband asked me to program a few radios for him & friends. I'm pretty nerdy and said SURE, how hard can it be?
Well, the first few were flawless, using CHIRP on UV-5R. I have 2 left that absolutely will not change the Display mode. These are HTUV8R (different from the rest), when I upload to radio it will send over the change, but nothing actually changes. When I download from the radio, it will show in settings that Display is Text (which is desired). When I go through the radio's menu it shows Text for a&b display as setting. This pair of radios will only display the frequency though everything is pointing to the text display being activated. Is this particular radio incapable of the feature or am I missing something? I appreciate any assistance as this is out of my typical realm.