Baofeng VFO & Channel Mode

[Unidener]

Ok.....gotta ask.....If I'm looking at a frequency on a BaoFeng and then select MR (for channel, correct?), why doesn't it switch from that frequency that you are looking at to the channel number related to that channel? For instance if I'm looking at channel 1 which I programmed in Chirp to 146.5 then I select VFO, why doesn't it display 146.5?

What am I not understanding? I've looked and I don't see a video addressing this....

Thanks!

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Variable-Frequency Oscillator (VFO) and Memory Mode (MR) are two entirely different modes on a receiver. The former mode being tunable meaning that when you press up or down arrow the frequency goes up or down whatever step size you have the VFO set to. Memory mode (MR) is just that, frequencies you have programmed into memory. Hope this clears things up for you

 

[FKimble]

When you go from MR to VFO, most radios display the last freq you had in the VFO.

Frank

 

[Unidener]

Variable-Frequency Oscillator (VFO) and Memory Mode (MR) are two entirely different modes on a receiver. The former mode being tunable meaning that when you press up or down arrow the frequency goes up or down whatever step size you have the VFO set to. Memory mode (MR) is just that, frequencies you have programmed into memory. Hope this clears things up for you

VFO and MR (I call channel).....I wish I could hit the button and see the VFO for say channel 10 and hit the VFO button again and see channel 10s frequency.... How do I know if channel 10 is 146.5 without CHIRP? While on the channel I selected menu and went through the steps and didn't see the frequency....

 

[reloader7sixtwo]

The radios' firmware / menu is basically going to determine what you can show on the screen. On many radios in the menu, it lets you select either channel name or frequency to display on the A or B band. On other radios, it will let you show both matching channel name and frequency on the A and B band.

Most of my radios or either one or the other, but I do have a few that will show both name and frequency on both A and B band, such as the RT890, RT900. The Baofeng 5RH Pro (GPS) does as well after I installed the newest firmware update, and a couple Quansheng K series radios I modified using F4HWN firmware and egzumer_v0.22 firmware. Both of those will add channel name and frequency on both A and B bands as well.

 

[merlin]

VFO is a separate entity from memory channels. The latter a bit self explanatory where you program a channel.
VFO, is just that, you enter a frequency and that is what you have.
Scanning cycles through memory channels, scanning VFO scans a range of frequencies depending on the step size.

 

[rf_patriot200]

VFO and MR (I call channel).....I wish I could hit the button and see the VFO for say channel 10 and hit the VFO button again and see channel 10s frequency.... How do I know if channel 10 is 146.5 without CHIRP? While on the channel I selected menu and went through the steps and didn't see the frequency....

MR = is Memory Recall. { Something that sadly sneaks away over the years.}

 

[nd5y]

VFO and MR (I call channel).....I wish I could hit the button and see the VFO for say channel 10 and hit the VFO button again and see channel 10s frequency.... How do I know if channel 10 is 146.5 without CHIRP? While on the channel I selected menu and went through the steps and didn't see the frequency....

Each channel doesn't have a VFO. There are only VFO A and B. They are totally independent of memory channels.

Menu 21 MDF-A and Menu 22 MDF-B allow you to set the upper (A) and lower (B) displays to show the memory channel number only (CH), alpha tag (NAME) or frequency (FREQ).
You can't do that with one button press.
It only works in memory mode.
You can set display A to NAME and B to FREQ an it will show the alpha tag and frequency if both are set to the same channel but you can't make the displays track eachother when you change channels.
You can't set A to a memory channel and B to a VFO or vice-versa.