Trying to have "private" communication.

[nd5y]

So which one of these is correct?

Both. The Duplex dropdown list can have an empty blank space at the top or "none" like the Documentation shows. I don't know if that is an undocumented recent change, a bug, or depends on the CHIRP version, operating system it is installed on or some other reason.

I use the pipx installed version (released today 20251205) on Linux and the Duplex dropdown list has:
[empty]
-
+
split
off

I think it used to have "none" but that was a long time ago on a different Linux distro. I don't know why the hell they don't change it to "simplex". CHIRP does several things differently.

 

[K9KLC]

Both. The Duplex dropdown list can have an empty blank space at the top or "none" like the Documentation shows. I don't know if that is an undocumented recent change, a bug, or depends on the CHIRP version, operating system it is installed on or some other reason.

I use the pipx installed version on Linux and the Duplex dropdown list has:
[empty]
-
+
split
off

I think it used to have "none". I don't know why the hell they don't change it to "simplex". CHIRP does several things differently.

Thanks. Henceforth my confusion, my Mac Version has the same as you posted above.

 

[K9KLC]

Both. The Duplex dropdown list can have an empty blank space at the top or "none" like the Documentation shows. I don't know if that is an undocumented recent change, a bug, or depends on the CHIRP version, operating system it is installed on or some other reason.

I use the pipx installed version (released today 20251205) on Linux and the Duplex dropdown list has:
[empty]
-
+
split
off

I think it used to have "none" but that was a long time ago on a different Linux distro. I don't know why the hell they don't change it to "simplex". CHIRP does several things differently.

I only wanted to clear this up as a buddy is coming over over the weekend and we're going to use this to program a couple of his radios and see if it takes the tones from Chirp here. I guess by the time it's over I'll at least know a little more about it than I do now. Frankly it looks like a lot of other programming (ham type) stuff out there or, at least to me it does. But ya, I don't know why they don't put "simplex" or something else there.

Obviously the documentation is not 100% accurate. I had read what you posted before but "none" wasn't an option here.

Again thanks.

 

[K9KLC]

Testing 2 Fengs here over the weekend, (sorry just now got around to posting due to doctors appointments) Using chirp, the two radios worked as expected on MURS, GMRS, and the ham bands. I ended up using his Windows laptop the adaptor from my Mac didn't seem to want to work for the USB C to A connection for some reason. We put a PL in one radio and not the other, and just for good measure put a different pl in the transmit to test radio, and the receive radio did not pick up the signal until both radios had the proper PL tone in it. These radios were both older so I did not have the opportunity to try a newer one to an older one.
I'd like to point out, that when the radios were right next to each other it didn't seem to work as well and some popping in happened I surmise due to front end overload. Once we got them 25-30 feet apart, all was fine.