[chirp_users] How to program null channels

[B Stone]

Hi Jim and thank you for the speedy reply. I've succeeded in making a 
new .img file but I'm still unable to do the channel skip as I once did. 
Setting channels as 0.000000 results in an error message. I'm trying to 
make this radio as easy to use as possible and eliminate any unused 
channels and this new memory layout makes it more challenging than less. 
Do you have any ideas on how to narrow down the radio to just 3 channels 
and no more?

Brad

On 9/16/15 5:43 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
> 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
>>
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