[chirp_users] VX-7R Issues

[Tom Balaban]

Hello,

First, I am a lurker who reads almost every posts and who appreciates 
Chirp in the infrequent times that I need to reprogram my HTs. Thanks to 
all for your hard work,

My current issue is I am reprogramming a friend's radios (1 Yaesu VX-7R 
and 2 Baofeng UV-5Rs). My template was an .img file for my Baofeng 
UV-5Rs. I have an identical one for my Yaesu VX-6Rs.

Reprogramming the Baofengs went perfectly but the VX-7R is driving me nuts.

As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of 
MURS channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in 
reserve. So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for 
NFM. Chirp will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to 
FM before uploading it.

Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant 
noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It 
is unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it 
works great.

I have attached all three .img files in hopes that someone will point me 
in the right direction.

BTW, while trying to figure this out myself, I tried using AUTO in the 
MODE dropdown. The FM would flash then stay but at the very bottom of 
the input matrix a new LOC 1 would appear with AUTO but that line is 
greyed out. I saved the image and reloaded it and then Loc 1 showed AUTO 
but was still greyed out. The old Loc 1 was gone. This does not seem to 
be normal behavior.

BTW, I am using Chirp Daily-20140719 on a Xubuntu netbook. had the same 
result using 0.4.0 on the netbook. I just tried it on a Win 8 box and it 
looks good (line with AUTO is not greyed out) but I'm not going to take 
the time to install the correct driver on a machine that will never 
travel with me to a bike race. The Win 8 version is Chirp 0.4.0.

Thanks for taking the time to read this,

Best Wishes,
Tom
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