[chirp_devel] Baofeng UV-B5 Wide Splits and Cross-Band

[Jim Unroe]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Bret Hedrington
<Bret.Hedrington at brethedrington.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Just curious,
>
> I didn't know this was able to be done on the uv5b
>
> Any chance the uv5r can do this...
>
> Bret

Bret,
I've always known that the UV-B5/B6 radio was capable of being
programmed with a 2.5 KHz resolution even though the OEM software was
limited to 5 KHz resolution.

It has always been thought (at least by me) that the UV-B5 was limited
to a maximum split of 69.95 MHz and that no cross band operation was
possible.  Last weekend I accidentally discovered that the odd-split
can be software programmed across the whole width of either band and
cross-band operation was also programmable anywhere within the two
bands.

The UV-5R (and its many variants) have always (since early 2012) has
been capable of operating with any split and cross-band within its
operating ranges. And CHIRP has supported programming it since UV-5R
support was added in the summer of 2012.

Jim KC9HI