[chirp_users] chirp-daily-20160419-win32: Hide Unused Fields, Smart Tone Modes

[Rich Messeder]

On 2016-04-27 09:15:-0400, you wrote:
>Perhaps the problem is you are TOO familiar with other programming methods.

I think that you have hit it exactly!

>I am a novice to CHIRP; I read the programming info & the detailed field definitions and was merrily up and programming in a few minutes.
>Lee N8VYH

OK...I admit...I gave the first few paragraphs of each doc and web page a cursory glance, figured that it worked in a certain way, connected to the UV-5 and downloaded a copy of the memory.

It's not that I don't read instructions...in fact, I try to read them for each device I have. The "problem" is that CHIRP displayed, by default, fields that are "unused", and there was no clue about that. The menu had "Hide Unused Fields" checked, so I figured that I was looking at "used" fields. Using Properties, I changed Power, and things worked as I thought they should. Then I tried to change PL tones individually, and that is where things fell apart. CHIRP kept changing my PL tones to 88.5, and there is no clue why.

I don't want to bother anyone further until I have read further...I still have not run across the reference to the UV-5 that (Tom?) posted a few days ago referring to 
"The UV5R's internal memory structure does not have "Tone Mode" and
"Tone" value fields, like most other ham radios do. Instead, it has
only two fields: rxtone and txtone. To activate a transmit tone, the
tone's value it stored in the txtone field. To turn off tones, zero is
written to this field. So when you set Tone Mode off, the tone value
you previously programmed is overwritten by zeros. This is just how
the radio is designed--unfortunately there's no way around it."

So I have some reading to do before I ask any more questions. For now, I find it misleading that I can change "unused" fields, and that CHIRP will then change them to some yet unexplained other value (I guess that's in the docs...so I'll find it in the next day or so). They ought to be blank and inaccessible. ... ... IMO, and we all know now how new to CHIRP I am. ;-)

~R~ NE1EE