[chirp_users] Chirp and the volume control

[Ken]

Thanks Jim.  I was just curious.  BTW, thanks for all your hard work you 
have put into Chirp and the help you offer others.


Ken


On 08/22/2016 07:15 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Ken <ken at wa0sbu.com> wrote:
>>     I'm curious, why does Chirp advise you on Baofengs "(volume may need
>> to be set at 100%)"?
>>
>>
>> Ken
>>
> In 4+ years I have been programming these radios I have only turned
> the volume up enough to get them powered on. These radios are
> programmed digitally using serial communications. The programming
> cables that I have don't even have wires for the speaker audio or mic
> audio. The volume level should not make any difference.
>
> That being said, someone insisted that it clearly made a repeatable
> difference for them. Volume low = unreliable cloning. Volume high =
> reliable cloning. Maybe something in the volume settings of these
> cheap radios affects the TTL levels of the serial communications.
> Setting the volume to high shouldn't hurt anything (the internal
> speaker is disconnected) so I reluctantly added "(volume may need to
> be set at 100%)".
>
> Jim KC9HI
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