<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Yes I am sorry, the 20th is what I meant.<br clear="none"></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:19 PM, Jeff Widen <dftd3@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Jim<br clear="none">Thanks for the info it was very helpful.<br clear="none">Jeff, K6QCB<br clear="none">--------------------------------------------<br clear="none">On Thu, 1/16/14, Jim Unroe <<a shape="rect"
ymailto="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Chirp Baofeng UV5RA Settings<br clear="none"> To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>><br clear="none"> Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 3:29 AM<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at<br clear="none"> 3:24 AM, Jeff Widen <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dftd3@yahoo.com" href="mailto:dftd3@yahoo.com">dftd3@yahoo.com</a>><br clear="none"> wrote:<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> In the advanced settings section for a Baofeng UV5RA in<br clear="none"> Chirp there is a "RESET menu" enable check box and<br clear="none"> "ALL menus" enable check box. What do these do?<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Thanks,<br
clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Jeff<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Hi Jeff,<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> When "RESET<br clear="none"> Menu" is not ticked, menu 40 (RESET) is not available<br clear="none"> to the user when the radio is in MR/Channel Mode.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> When "All<br clear="none"> Menus" is not ticked, none of the radio's menus are<br clear="none"> available to the user when the radio is in MR/Channel Mode.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Unfortunately,<br clear="none"> once the user taps the [VFO/MR] key and puts the radio into<br clear="none"> VFO/Frequency Mode, all menus are available to the user no<br clear="none"> matter what the settings for "RESET Menu" and<br clear="none"> "All Menus" happen to be.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> There is no way, in the typical UV-5R family of radios (see<br clear="none"> link below), to keep the user from accessing
VFO/Frequency<br clear="none"> mode. This pretty much diminishes the usefulness of these<br clear="none"> settings.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Import Communications' most recent F-11 (private label<br clear="none"> UV-5R), on the other hand, has a custom firmware that allows<br clear="none"> the [VFO/MR] key to be disabled. Disabling the [VFO/MR] key<br clear="none"> with the radio in MR/Channel Mode keeps the user in that<br clear="none"> mode and allows the "RESET Menu" and "All<br clear="none"> Menus" settings function as intended.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <a shape="rect" href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Baofeng_UV5R_Variants" target="_blank">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Baofeng_UV5R_Variants</a><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Jim KC9HI<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br clear="none"> <br clear="none">
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