[chirp_devel] Baofeng BF-C50 Work In Progress

[Jim Unroe]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 5:29 PM KC9MHE Eric Muehlstein via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I've been working on a driver for the Baofeng BF-C50 based on a T18 radio.  I am able to upload/download from the radio, I have the settings memory map done, and I'm trying to tie up some loose ends.  Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction...

I can help. I received my BF-C50 a few days ago and have been waiting
to see how you have progressed. The factory software that I used read
the radio up to 0x0660, so I modified you driver to match and captured
a "factory" image of my radio.

> 1) I'm collecting a "side tone" from the settings; however, it's now clear how I add this to the radiosettings so that it's available in the UI.

I can help you with this. Email me directly to reduce noise to the list.

> 2) I don't understand what the how the _frs and _grms settings work on T18Radio classes (do they validate that a frequency/width/power is appropriate for a band?).  When I set them both to False I avoid problems with some memories being uneditable.

You shouldn't need to set these. They will be False by default. The
radio (at least my radio) appears to be a fill band TX-RX UHF radio.
So no need to have any FRS, GMRS, PMR, etc, restrictons.

> 3) What is a jumpcode? I collect that on a per memory basis but I can't find any documentation on what it actually means/does.

I am not sure what you are referring to. You can explain it to me off-list.

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> Attached, you'll find the partially complete driver file for reference.  The driver as well as several reference images are available on github: https://github.com/emuehlstein/baofeng_bfc50

As mentioned above, I have the driver. I will be grabbing the images
after I send this reply.

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> Regards,
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> Eric KC9MHE

Jim KC9HI