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Programming question - F8HP

Thread starter Landonth
Start date Sep 24, 2017

Status: Not open for further replies.

Landonth

Newbie

Premium Subscriber

Sep 24, 2017

Hi everybody,

I am having issues programming my BF-F8HP and am looking to see if you have any tips for me. I am using the newest build of Chirp to program but am unable to program Offset/cTone/DtcsCode/ect… I have included a screen shot of the fields I am trying to program, the columns hi lighted in brown are the ones I am having problems with. Im not sure if I have a bad radio or an issue downloading radio data. Would posting my Chirp image help at all?

Just very frustrated at this point and looking for some direction or advice, I have spent far to many hours on something that should not be this hard.... lol

Thanks for any help you can provide