<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>Ok Dan, I own the Anytone yahoo group. In the QPSAT5888UV software </span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>it has a transmit inhibit. I use this because I listen to law enforcement on</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>one side of the radio and amateur on the other. The AT5888UV has a big</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>obnoxious button to switch the marshall side from
A to B or B to A. I found</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>myself once changing sides from amateur to law enforcement in the middle </span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>of a conversation. Lucky for me I did not program a PL tone encode for the</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>law enforcement channel. I then went into the software and found that I could </span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>shut of transmit for whatever channel I wanted. I've made special announcements</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>about this in the group. An accidental transmit while rare, onto a public service </span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>frequency could get you into trouble. So I guess I'm asking how much trouble</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>would it be to add this transmit inhibit to Chirp for all these Chinese LMR radios? </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"></div><div style="font-size:
12pt;"> Much thanks and kudos to the software. </div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">Milton, owner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anytone_AT-588UV/</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dan Smith <dsmith@danplanet.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 12, 2013 9:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] Blocking Transmit on Selected Channels<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>> It
depends on the radio that you are programming. On the radios that<br>> I have been involved with (Baofeng UV-5R, UV-B5 UV-82 and Wouxun<br>> KG-UV6D), to inhibit TX all you do is set Duplex=off and CHIRP<br>> handles the details.<br><br>Indeed. Note that the duplex=off setting was a late addition so many<br>model drivers don't claim to support it. If you have one where<br>duplex=split,offset=0.0 works, let us know and we can trivially add the<br>duplex=off capability. We just need to know which models can handle<br>this easily without having to tease out a tx-inhibit bit.<br><br>That said, if you've got one where a tx-inhibit bit is the required<br>way and are willing to help a developer tease out the bit, it should be<br>fairly easy.<br><br>-- <br>Dan Smith<br>www.danplanet.com<br>KK7DS<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com"
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