[chirp_users] How to program null channels

[Jim Unroe]

David,

Yes. It will for any radio that uses the "uv5r/py" driver.

Jim KC9HI

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:06 PM, David Buss <kd9ebr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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