congaman59
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I have a new Baofeng UV-82 I am trying to program it with chirp. I can get it to accept all the 2M channels but not the 70cm ones. Is there a setting I have wrong possibly?
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Baofeng UV-82 programing using CHIRP question
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Should be nothing to set, you can enter a 2M channel followed by a 70cm channel without changing anything, just entering the correct frequencies. Unless you've got a bug in the CHIRP version or a glitch in the radio perhaps?
In CHIRP, open the stock configuration for calling frequencies. Delete the ones the radio can't handle., leave the 2m and 70cm channels as they are, and see if you can download that to the radio. If you can, CHIRP and the radio are good and you're entering the freqs wrong somehow. If you can't download that to the radio--there's a problem in the radio or CHIRP version.
In CHIRP, open the stock configuration for calling frequencies. Delete the ones the radio can't handle., leave the 2m and 70cm channels as they are, and see if you can download that to the radio. If you can, CHIRP and the radio are good and you're entering the freqs wrong somehow. If you can't download that to the radio--there's a problem in the radio or CHIRP version.
Do some testing for me...
Look at the Setting->Other Settings menu panel and tell me what the firmware version is.
Also see if you can key 222.00000 into CHIRP.
The UV-82 is a VHF/UHF radio. The UV-82X is a VHF/220 radio. There is a single byte that CHIRP looks at to try to determine which model it is. I have seen these radios have this bit incorrectly set so it fools CHIRP into thinking the radio bands are different from what they really are.
Also, the VHF/UHF radio has an odd numbered firmware version, where the VHF/220 model has and even numbered firmware version.
So once we determine which model you really have, we can get CHIRP to be in sync with it.
Jim KC9HI
congaman59
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congaman59
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Chirp
It looks like the radio is taking some 70cm frequencies but not others. It wouldn't take 222.0 freq. I am really confused.
congaman59
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Chirp
It looks like the radio is taking some 70cm frequencies but not others. It wouldn't take 222.0 freq. I am really confused.
CHIRP should accept anything from 400.000 MHz to 520.000 MHz. Once you type in a frequency, you must press ENTER or click into another cell or it will not be accepted. But if this is the issue, you would have the same problem with entering VHF frequencies.
Jim KC9HI
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