[chirp_users] how to respond on /issues/ page

[IZ3GME Marco]

On 26/09/2012 01:37, Dan Smith wrote:
>> thanks dan! yep, i can tell at a glance that the daily build covers
>> exactly the frequency range of my uv6x, but not near the freq range of
>> my uv6d. does this mean i shouldn't use chirp with the uv6d until this
>> has been resolved? or does it just mean that channels outside the
>> 'official' range won't get transferred?
>
> I'll let Marco comment here, since he wrote the UV6 driver.
>
> I would expect that it's just a matter of range-checking and that CHIRP
> will refuse entering frequencies outside the range it thinks is
> appropriate for your model. However, the way those radios work, I'd
> expect no ill effects of putting in frequencies outside the accepted
> range, nor would I expect the radio to not tune (or appear to tune) them.

Dan is, obviously, right: it's only a matter of range checking.
Chirp interface is forced, for uv6d, to accept frequencies in range 
136MHz to 175MHz and 350MHz to 471MHz which appeared to be correct for 
that radio at the time I wrote the driver.
I suspect that forcing radio on frequencies a little outside his range 
don't give any bad effect but I didn't try this myself.

Guy, can you please send me an image downloaded from your uv6d and the 
ranges your radio accept so that I can try to find a way to distinguish 
this submodel?

It would be nice to have a full range of radio given from the sellers to 
play with ... having complete programming info from producers could be 
even better ;)

Dan, have you ever tried to contact wouxun headquarter?

73 de IZ3GME Marco