[chirp_users] Chirp and the volume control

Ryan Tourge
Mon Aug 22 17:21:13 PDT 2016


I have noticed this intermittently on the lower end Kenwood LMR radios as
well.

On Monday, August 22, 2016, Ken <ken at wa0sbu.com> wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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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