[chirp_users] How to program null channels

[David Buss]

Does the same for my UV-82HP

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 18:52
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] How to program null channels

David,

You are right. CHIRP currently does not clear the "name" when a
channel is erased in the UV-5R driver. File a bug and this can be
changed.

Jim KC9HI

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:17 PM, David Buss <kd9ebr at gmail.com> 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> 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 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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