[chirp_users] How to program null channels

[B Stone]

I just figured it out. I missed the Edit->Delete. It works great. 
Thanks, everyone!

Thank you and Shalom.

On 9/16/15 6:17 PM, David Buss wrote:
> I tried that previously. It does remove the frequency, but if you go 
> through the keypad and program that memory slot with a new frequency, 
> it will keep the old "name" that war originally in that memory location.
>
> Sent from my android device.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> Sent: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:01
> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] How to program null channels
>
> Brad,
>
> If you don't want a channel in the radio, you don't program it. Using
> you example of channel 0, 3 and 4, here is what you do.
>
> 1. Click on any memory Loc number to highlight that row
> 2. Press Ctrl-A to highlight all 128 memory rows
> 3. Ctrl-click on row 0 to un-highlight it. Repeat for rows 3 and 4.
> 4. Press the Delete key to erase all data from the highlighted rows
> (all except 0, 3 and 4)
> 4. Upload to your radio.
>
> Jim KC9HI
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:46 PM, B Stone <baruchstone at gmail.com 
> <mailto:baruchstone at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 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 <tel:0000000> 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 
> <mailto: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 <tel:0000000> 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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