[chirp_users] BF-F8HP - UHF Not Supported

[Jim Unroe]

There is a "bit" in the memory that CHIRP "looks" at to determine if you
are using a VHF/UHF radio or one of the no longer available VHF/220 radios
(UV-5RAX and UV-82X come to mind). Your image has this bit to the value
that tells CHIRP that your radio is a VHF/220 model so it enables the 220
MHz band and removes the UHF band. You can verify this by trying to enter
frequencies in the 220-260 MHz range. If that works, then this is the
reason.

Open a ticket, attach a freshly downloaded image from your radio and I will
correct it for you.

Jim KC9HI

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:09 PM Ruben Rodriguez via chirp_users <
chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> Chirp won't let me type in UHF frequencies in the file even before
> uploading to the radio.
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> I saw the message below & checked settings and yes lowest UHF is 400.
> High 520.  Won't let me type anything in the 440 range.
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> The radio accepts UHF if I manually type it in on the keypad.
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> The CHIRP used to accept UHF & shows them on my old files, but when I try
> to edit the old code-plugs, they bonk into an error.
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> Says...
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> The thread below never explained how this was resolved or maybe didn't
> match my issue of the settings (upper-lower limits) already being correct.
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> Thank you.
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> Sgt. Ruben Rodriguez
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> Frank Baecker wrote:
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> Thank you, I'll give it a try. I have never changed any of those settings
> though and nobody else had access to the device. Unless the device was
> shipped with these settings.
>
> Since the Wouxoun has the same problem, I wonder where this setting is
> coming from as I didn't set it - makes no sense to restrict your own device.
>
> Somebody changed them from the factory defaults (typically VHF Low: 130,
> VHF High: 179 and UHF Low: 400, UHF High: 520) to VHF Low: 100, VHF High
> 199, UHF Low: 200, UHF High 999. It was the UHF Low: 200 that was causing
> the issue.
>
> Baofeng UV-5R/UV-82 like radios send the band limits to CHIRP as part of
> cloning initialization process. That is what CHIRP uses to determine if it
> is programming a VHF/UHF model or a (now rare) VHF/220 model. Older radios
> always send the factory band limits. Some of the newer radios will update
> what is set back to CHIRP based on what the user may have changed the band
> limits to. On the models that do this, setting the lower UHF band limit
> anywhere from 200-299 will cause CHIRP to thing it is working with a
> VHF/220 model that doesn't support UHF frequencies.
>
> I thought about changing it band limits back to factory but opted to keep
> the same range and just move the split.
>
> Jim KC9HI
> Actions #13 <https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9776?tab=history#note-13>
> Updated by Frank Baecker <https://chirp.danplanet.com/users/75076> about
> 1 year
> <https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/activity?from=2022-03-14> ago
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