Baofeng 1.25m chirp programming for baofang uv-5r

[ke2dzk]

Hello all,
I did the 3 finger "hack" to my UV-5R wanting to play with 1.25m.

Looks like when I go into VFO mode I can enter 1.25m feq like 222.000 and transmit.

CHIRP however refuses to let me program 1.25m channels, all I ever get is an error "out of supported range". I did go into other settings and adjust the VFO high and low frequencies but no luck.

Is there any way with either CHIRP or the stock windows uv-5r programming software to enter in these frequencies?

Thanks

 

[nd5y]

You can try using UV-5X or one of the other models that includes 220 MHz but don't be upset if it bricks the radio and you can't recover it.

 

[n0xvz]

Is there any way with either CHIRP or the stock windows uv-5r programming software to enter in these frequencies?

A similar situation came up on the CHIRP mailing list recently. Here's what was said:

The driver is almost certainly enforcing the rules the radio is *supposed* to respect, and can't tell that it's been modified.

Best thing you can do is file a bug, include your image and the debug log so we can see what it's complaining about to see if there's something we could do to make it more flexible.

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