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

[Bret Hedrington]

Great!

Thanks for you years of time!

Mucho Garacias!

On Apr 30, 2015, at 6:17 PM, "Jim Unroe" <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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