[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-5R menu locked

[Massimo Nespolo]

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 5:14:12 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 9:27 AM Massimo Nespolo
> <massimo.nespolo at orange.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings from France.
>>
>> When I first got my UV-5R, the channel programming with CHIRP was
>> performed by a friend, who locked the menu button to prevent a beginner
>> like me to make any mistake which could have screwed the programming.
>>
>> Now I would like to unlock the menu, but I cannot figure out how to do
>> it. I did quite a lot of internet research, but I could only find
>> duplicate tutorials on how to lock the pad with the key button. That
>> is not what I am looking for, of course. The menu button is
>> unresponsive, I would like to unlock it.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help.

> Just for clarification, unless you have one of the radios that can
> disable the user from accessing VFO (frequency) mode, such as the F11,
> UV-82C or UV-82HP, and the the menus were disabled with the radio in
> MR (channel) node, then there is no way to prevent the radio's user
> from accessing any of the menus. They are only disabled while the
> radio is in MR mode. All that needs to be done to access any menu is
> to switch to VFO mode (where all menus are always accessible no matter
> if they have been "disabled", or not).

> To enable the settings that disable the "RESET Menu" setting and the
> "All Menus" setting using CHIRP you tick the following settings.

Settings ->> Advanced Settings -> RESET Menu
Settings ->> Advanced Settings -> All Menus

> Jim KC9HI

That's what I needed! Thank you so much!

Massimo