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Baofeng BTech UV50x2 Transmit

tglendye

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Hi. I purchased a Btech UV50x2 radio from my local amateur radio club. It is a used radio from the auction of a deceased Ham's estate. I would like to place some out of band frequencies for receiving purposes only. When I program such a frequency, I cannot find a way to program it to not transmit on the frequencies that are outside the ham bands. Any suggestions? I have tried Chirp, and also BTech/ Baofeng's software... and searched Youtube.

EDIT: I did find the settings below, but it is grayed out and cannot change it. 1711231651477.png
 
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EDIT: I did find the settings below, but it is grayed out and cannot change it.
That has nothing to do with disabling transmit on a memory channel.

The way to do it in CHIRP is in the Memories tab you set the Duplex column to off for each channel you don't want to transmit on or right click the memory channel(s) to get to the properties pop up window and set Duplex to off there.

That only works if the radio is capable of disabling transmit on memory channels.
 

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Update: That doesn't seem to work with this radio. It definitely changes the offset, but still transmits on simplex. It looks like I can change the offset to a minus and ~316.000mhz range... landing above 144.000 mhz. I think I'll just remove the out of band receive frequencies, so I the radio won't have the appearance of being able to transmit where it shouldn't. Thanks.
 
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