[chirp_users] VX-7R Issues

[W4GRJ]

I have several vx-7r with MARS mod, they all work fine on MURS / GMRS frequencies.
Jack
W4GRJ

On Jul 24, 2014, at 2:22 PM, John W. <jl_wilkerson at att.net> wrote:

It is neither designed, nor legal to use that radio on said frequencies 
From: Tom Hayward
Sent: 7/23/2014 3:36 PM
To: Discussion of CHIRP
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] VX-7R Issues

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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