[chirp_users] VX-7R Issues

[Tom Balaban]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

It works fine with manual programming, just not with an upload using 
Chirp. I repopulated the memory location with the VFO version of the 
frequency that we get assigned to use more frequently and it works fine.

Tom


On 7/23/2014 3:36 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tom Balaban <mototom800 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 just took a look at the specs for that radio on the Yaesu website.
> They don't mention anything about transmitting on the FRS channels or
> what mode is should be in. Maybe the issue is that you're trying to
> get the radio to do something it wasn't designed to do.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
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