[chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux

[Jeff]

Oy. I can see this turning into another obsessive tweakfest, which
interferes with my regular obsessive software tweaking, which is a formula
for madness. 

The increments-of-five approach outlined on the miklor.com page seems to
work well, although I started at five for the level-one slot. This gives me
a setting of 25 when squelch is set to five, which is the value that used to
be squelch-level nine (on VHF anyway) under the original factory settings.
Since I almost always kept the squelch at nine, this offers a familiar point
of reference in case I can't hear something I used to hear, or vice versa. 

The new level-nine squelch setting of 45 turned out to be just a shade too
low when I wanted to squash everything but the strongest signals, so I
bumped that up to 50 on the VHF side, and 55 for UHF. On the opposite end of
the spectrum, I decided to lower the level-one squelch setting to a value of
one for both bands, just to keep me from wondering what I might be missing
(e.g. simplex or the ISS) with a higher setting. 

The problem, of course, is that these settings are fine for my UV-5R/Baofeng
A-V85 antenna combination, indoors at home, under current weather
conditions. A different location with a different antenna may give me an
earful of noise, and the snowpack will eventually give way to leafy trees.
At least I hope so. In the meantime, I suppose there's no harm in
pretweaking the alternate CHIRP files I keep on hand for traveling to other
locations with different repeaters and higher RF noise levels. 

So far, I haven't shaved off my eyebrows and run into the street wearing
nothing but my socks, so I'm good, mostly. 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of John
LaMartina
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 7:04 PM
To: 'Discussion of CHIRP'
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux

Another Mystery of the UniV5Rse solved.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com
[mailto:chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:45 PM
To: Discussion of CHIRP
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux

Wow. The (so-called) squelch was my only real complaint about the 5R.
Problem solved!

You guys are alright. Thanks! 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat Feb 21 13:03:48 MST 2015
To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch Redux

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Michael Schwarzchild <mszd at charter.net>
wrote:
> Now that the expanded UV-5R Service Settings for Squelch are 
> accessible through CHIRP (thank you!), does anyone have 
> recommendations for good settings there?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael, W1NBV

Visit miklor.com

http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Squelch.php

Jim KC9HI

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