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Baofeng Baofeng UV-50x2 Programming

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Need some help please. Yesterday, one of the new hams I'm Elmering asked for assistance in programming her UV-50x2 radio using CHIRP. She had the correct cable and is a RadioReference Premium subscriber. We followed the directions that came with the official Baofeng programming cable.

She wanted to program in 2m and 70cm ham frequencies into her UV-50x2 using RadioRef's database We successfully got to the CHIRP option of Query the RadioRef database but the only frequencies we were seeing were our county's public service frequencies. Are we missing a step here, as we tried several times to find the list of local ham repeater frequencies but no luck. I've programmed other Baofeng radios in the past and have always been able to successfully import ham frequencies. Also did some data mining on the 'Net for answers. Have yet to find one so my faith in the folks on this website prevailed and am seeking assistance here.

Tnx and 73's.
 
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While it isn't quite as slick as a direct import, you might look at finding frequencies of interest in Repeaterbook, entering them in a properly formatted spreadsheet, then importing them into CHIRP.

To get the spreadsheet formatted correctly, simply export an existing codeplyg from CHIRP as a csv file.
 
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