[chirp_users] Elementary help for novice requested!

Fri May 31 08:40:16 PDT 2019

Jim and Tom,

Thank you for your helpful, informative and welcoming responses.

I’m pretty sure that I understand everything you’ve written.

I’m using an HP laptop running W7. I have a second HP laptop running W10 but I prefer the other machine.

I’ve already tried to copy and paste the marine vhf stock configuration but I highlighted all rows, select all, copy, paste into a file, new. It didn’t work but I’ll try again one row at a time.

I’m still having issues with file/save and file/save as. As I click on either action, the screen simply reverts to the open page. Sounds pretty simple but I haven’t yet found a way to save/change name as save!

Hopefully. The YouTube video will help. I’m now away from home for the weekend but based upon your feedback I’ll be enthusiastically trying again on Monday!

Kind regards

David

Sent from my iPhone

On 31 May 2019, at 12:48, Tom Henderson <Tom at henderson4.us<mailto:Tom at henderson4.us>> wrote:

Look at the tab for the file you have open that you're trying to write to the radio. If it says something like "Generic CSV" a the beginning, you can't write that to a radio.

The problem is that you're opening a new file, or at least that's what you said you were doing in your original email. The only files you can write to a radio are files that were created by reading from a radio. The name on the tab should be the model of the radio you pulled it from. Save an unmodified version, then import the stock config into the file you got from the radio, save it again with a new name, then write it to the radio.

If "Upload to radio" is blank, it's most likely the tab you have open didn't come from a radio.

Check out this youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_kdktZAkI

At 4:40, he has just pulled the config from the radio.

At 7:00, he starts importing VHF channels

At 11:00, he uploads the file he just finished downloading and modifying back to the radio.

Tom Henderson

On 5/31/19 6:08 AM, David wrote:
Thanks for the response, Tom, much appreciated.

Your description is pretty much what I’m trying, unsuccessfully, to achieve.

I don’t seem able to either “file, save” or “file, save as”. Clicking on either doesn’t appear to work. When I’m on the page with “stock configuration” the “send to radio” option is greyed out.

I’ve tried a few times but always the same result. My next step is probably to download the chirp software and try again. Otherwise, I’m stuck!

Regards

David

Sent from my iPhone

On 31 May 2019, at 11:52, Tom Henderson <Tom at henderson4.us<mailto:Tom at henderson4.us>> wrote:

Sounds like you're missing a step. Once you've downloaded successfully from the radio, save that file and keep it in case you ever want to go back to the settings it came out of the box with. Next, with that file still open, select "radio" from the top menu, "Import from stock config," and then select the UHF channels you need. Now save the modofied file under a new name, and with that file still open, try writingback to the radio.

Hope that helps!

KW4TOM

Tom Henderson

On 5/31/19 2:16 AM, David wrote:
I've just bought a Baofeng UV-5R III and I'd like to use it for marine vhf and 2m and 70cm amateur bands. I've held a ham license since the 1980s but have been inactive for many years.

I've succeeded with "Download from radio".  I've also opened a new page to "Import from stock config" to open FR marine vhf.

I can't seem to be able to "File; save" or "File; save as"?

When I'm on the marine vhf page, I can not "upload to radio" The text is greyed out?

All help gratefully received!

Many thanks

David, G4PYH
Cheshire, UK

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