[chirp_users] UV5RA Audio

[Neil Stone]

My personal experience with the UV5R kit suggests having the squelch set to
1 (almost lowest) works best (for me at least).

YMMV
On 16 Oct 2015 08:14, "Dave VK2FDJS" <vk2fdjs at gmail.com> wrote:

> The important bit here is "... and if you hold down the monitor button".
>
> This tells you that the radio is probably working fine and that the channel
> frequencies are correct.  Looks like you have a squelch problem.
>
> My guess is that you've somehow turned "tone squelch" on (or whatever it's
> called in your radio).  This is the one where the radio needs to hear the
> tone in order to open the squelch, not the one it sends to a repeater.
>
> If that is turned on, then it's most likely incorrect.
>
> Have a look at the channel programming IN THE RADIO and look at the tone
> squelch / CTCSS settings.  Assuming they are set to tone squelch, then it's
> a matter of looking at the CHIRP file to see if it's set there too.
>
> An alternate possibility is that the radio's squelch level has been set
> impossibly high.  Again, it should be easy to check that in the radio
> itself.
>
> Regards, Dave VK2FDJS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Vaillette" <dvprint at gmail.com>
> To: <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 4:39 PM
> Subject: [chirp_users] UV5RA Audio
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I reprogrammed a UV5RA radio with the latest CHIRP, and the audio quit
> > for received signals.
> > Audio works fine for button beeps, turn on beeps, and if you hold down
> > the monitor button.
> > Audio works once in a while for a received signal, but very infrequently.
> > I tried the Miklor factory reset using the original factory image file,
> > no good.
> > Radio has N5R2401 firmware, BFB297 software, says 141206N for the start
> > up.
> >
> > Loaded chirp 20150714, loaded N5R2401 factory image, uploaded to radio.
> > Loaded chirp 20151013, downloaded radio, copied frequency info over, no
> > audio for reception.
> > Speaker works fine for any beeps, same with a speaker mike that works
> > great on another radio.
> >
> > Any ideas? At the moment this radio is a brick, and only had it for 2
> > months.
> >
> > Dave Vaillette
> > dvprint at gmail.com
> > ph. 484-695-0760
> >
> > Thanks
> > _______________________________________________
> > chirp_users mailing list
> > chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com
> > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
> > To unsubscribe, send an email to
> > chirp_users-unsubscribe at intrepid.danplanet.com
> >
> >
> > -----
> > No virus found in this message.
> > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> > Version: 2015.0.6172 / Virus Database: 4447/10826 - Release Date:
> 10/15/15
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> chirp_users mailing list
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com
> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
> To unsubscribe, send an email to
> chirp_users-unsubscribe at intrepid.danplanet.com
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20151016/38192504/attachment.html