[chirp_users] Unlocking the field programming

[Marco IZ3GME]

...mmm... can't it be the Keypad lock enabled?

Frank, can you send an image (.img file) taken from the locked radio for 
us to analyse it?

73 de IZ3GME Marco


On 06/03/2013 07:49 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Franklin Sanor <wa8whp at gmail.com
> <mailto:wa8whp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     A local ham has a UV5R which cannot be field programmed. What
>     procedure is needed to do this? I can program using chirp but this
>     wont allow on-the-go changes.
>     TNX
>     73
>     WA8WHP
>     Frank
>     wa8whp at gmail.com <mailto:wa8whp at gmail.com>
>
> Franklin,
>
> Exactly how is it that this UV-5R cannot be field programmed? Would you
> download a CHIRP image from this radio and attach it to a post to this
> list so I can take a look at it?
>
> The only way that I know someone can prevent field programming of a
> UV-5R is to disable the VFOs by using CHIRP. The way this is
> accomplished is by setting the lower band limits higher than the upper
> band limits. No frequencies can then be keyed into the VFO and therefor
> no frequencies can be saved to a channel with menu 27. If this is what
> has happened, then just set the band limits back to the range of
> frequencies that you want to be field programmed.
>
> Jim KC9HI
>
>
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