[chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 130, Issue 10

[Dennis Wage]

I tried it on a different UV5R yesterday and it did not do it. I went back
and tried it on the first one and it definitely does it. I was able to get
it to stop transmitting by pressing another number key and releasing PTT.

Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)

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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:06 PM Chuck Hast <kp4djt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here you go, more on this, I saw this about a year ago, in a blog by
> another person who was tasked with
> finding these things.
>
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
>
> More for your "enjoyment"... I am being cynical here... It should be alarm.
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:52 AM Christopher Knowles <cknowles at tiac.net>
> wrote:
>
>> As a former Air Force intelligence analyst, writer on China's PLA
>> cyber-hacking Unit 61398 in Shanghai, and student of their industries
>> surreptitiously installing extra rice grain-sized microprocessors on
>> motherboards from Silicon Valley manufactured by Chinese subcontracted
>> companies overseen by Beijing, I can confirm that this facetious suggestion
>> is indeed a reality.  Read "Patriots on the Watchtower: The Second American
>> Revolution".  Chris Knowles, N1CAK
>> On 10/15/2019 8:28 AM, Dave B via chirp_users wrote:
>>
>> That'll be the Chinese surveillance mode feature. ;-)
>>
>> 73.
>>
>> Dave G0WBX.
>>
>>
>> On 14/10/2019 20:00, chirp_users-request at intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
>>
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>> Found a really weird bug on my UV5R today by accident.
>>
>> If you have one, try it and see if yours does the same thing.
>>
>> Press and hold PTT. While holding PTT push 1 on the keypad and hold for 5
>> seconds. This of course sends DTMF #1.
>>
>> If you release the PTT while still holding the 1 button, the radio stays in
>> transmit mode with the microphone on even though the display says it's back
>> in receive mode. I found no way to stop the transmission except to turn off
>> the radio.
>>
>> Dennis M. Wage (W9BOQ)
>>
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>>
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>>
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