[chirp_users] ReRe: UV-6R driver issue

[Jim Unroe]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:07 PM, stephen johnston
<chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> i'll try again.
>
> in chip you set the base frequency, offset & shift direction.
> how that gets into the radio i supose depends on the radio, but i have it
> set in chip and it's not making it into the radio.

It does. I've just programmed about 80 channels using my image from you UV-5R.

>
> as for the radio itself, i can tell you now - because i have done it last
> week.
> unlike older baofeng stuff with direct-entry bugs and stupid work arounds
> from places like Miklor, you can enter the frequency, offset and
> shift-direction from the keypad - and it works - and you can save it!!

Only the VFO uses SFT-D and OFFSET. When you store it to a channel, it
is converted to an RX frequency and a TX frequency. There is
absolutely no shift direction or offset stored in a memory channel.

CHIRP does the same. It lets you enter the RX frequency, a shift
direction and an offset. Then it takes that information and converts
it to an RX frequency and a TX frequency and stores it. It does this
because that is what the radio uses/requires.

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> so i suppose later, i will reset the radio, put a channel in by keypad -
> then read it with chip.
> if it's right, i will reset the radio again and upload the downloaded data
> to see if it's still o.k..

I'll bet if you check again it is correct. Just press the PTT button
and you can see the frequency change.

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> stephen johnston
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Jim KC9HI