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Quansheng UV-K6 Programming Anomaly with CHIRP

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I have a couple of Quansheng UV K6's that I've been playing with and testing. So far, so good (for a CCR). I do like the USB-C charge port.

Previously, I've always started with a prebuilt codeplug template based on the first read of the radio with some customized settings. I just added my frequency/channel info, plus a date code and uploaded it to the radio without issue.

Yesterday, I started with a completely blank codeplug from CHIRP, added the frequencies/channels and uploaded it to the radio which had stock firmware. When I keyed the radio, I noticed it was giving a PTT ID on every channel, yet PTT ID was never enabled on the radio and there's not a column on the CHIRP grid for PTT ID.

I "read" the radio in CHIRP (and on the Quansheng CPS, too) and couldn't find any instance of PTT ID being enabled. When I looked at the radio's internal "settings" menu, PTT ID was "on". RTFM-ing the laughably translated manual indicated that PTT ID was on a per-channel basis and there was no global switch. To manually enable/disable it, one has to enable/disable that particular setting, then manually save that channel.

So I uploaded the previous codeplug that didn't have PTT ID enabled and all channels were normal xmit.

Next, I opened my prebuilt codeplug template and cut and pasted the channels from the codeplug with PTT ID, uploaded it to the radio and all channels behaved normally.

I have no explanation as to what caused PTT ID to enable. I've programmed other CCR's from blank CHIRP codeplugs and never had this issue. I'll probably send a bug report to the CHIRP folks, too.
 
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I hope you have better luck fixing it than I did. I never could get it to turn off. I was still
Under 30days with Amazon so…….off it went and got a replacement. I ended up downloading the Quansheng programming software. Every time you enter a new channel a dedicated screen comes up for programming the channel to include weather or not you want a PTT ID on the channel. I personally don’t play with the Quanshengs on CHIRP anymore.
 
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WSBB519 said:
I hope you have better luck fixing it than I did. I never could get it to turn off. I was still
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The solution that worked for me was to use the programming template I made from the first read of the radio, with a few adjustments in the radio setting menu (TOT time, and startup message). All previous loads based on this template worked fine without the PTT ID.

I created the programming frequency grid in a blank incarnation of CHIRP, the copied/paste into the frequency/channel grid on the template.
The radio worked normally w/o the PTT ID.
 
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