[chirp_users] How to program null channels

[Jim Unroe]

Baofend has changed the memory layouts of these radios more than once
of the last 3+ years. Images from a radio with one memory layout must
not be uploaded into a radio with another memory layout. So CHIRP no
long allows you to upload an image file into a radio unless a 14 bytes
of the firmware version exactly match.

1. Load the image from your old radio into CHIRP.
2. Download from your new UV-82 into CHIRP.
3. Copy and paste the channels from the "old" tab to the "new" tab.
4. Upload the "new" tab to your UV-82.

Jim KC9HI

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:30 PM, B Stone <baruchstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow Chirp'ers:
>
> I am trying to program in a few channels while leaving some channels blank.
> I was able to do this with a version of Chirp from 2014 but I recently tried
> to upload my old .img to a new UV-82 and was met with a firmware
> incompatibility message. In my new .img I set the channels I want to use (0,
> 3, and 4) and want the rest of the channels to be completely unavailable (if
> you are on channel 0 and press the up arrow then you immediately go to 2
> having skipped 1). I thought the way to do this was to was to set the
> frequency to 0.000000 but I get an error message about being out of
> reference. I also tried to use a CSV file to import and saw just the few
> channels I need but this didn't result in the radio only having those three
> channels. I am including a screenshot of my old .img in hopes this can be
> guiding.
>
> I thank you for your time and assistance.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> B Stone
>