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Radioddity DB25 programming issue

jnojr

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I just got a DB25 on Black Friday sale. I'm able to connect to it with CHIRP as a QYT KT8900D (which is puzzling, as I assume the "D" is for Digital, which this radio is not). I pasted in my config and uploaded. The result is... bizarre. The display shows a bunch of weird frequencies that are not in my programming. Pressing V/M just displays different frequencies. And the radio doesn't look like wither example in the manual downloaded from radioddity.com I've emailed their support and opened an issue with CHIRP in the hopes that they can look at the debug log and image and figure out what's going on.

Anyone else run into this?
 

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From this website: QYT KT-8900D short review
  • There are several versions of the KT-8900. The one without a “D” is a smaller dual-band radio but only has dual-monitor. There is also a version with the “R”. The one with a “D” has quad monitoring. Even this has several releases already.
 
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