<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It is neither designed, nor legal to use that radio on said frequencies <br></div></div><hr><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tom Hayward</span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7/23/2014 3:36 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Discussion of CHIRP</span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Re: [chirp_users] VX-7R Issues</span><br><br>On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tom Balaban <mototom800@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> As a bit of background, we are bicycle race officials and work off of MURS<br>> channels. We like to have a full set of FRS/GMRS on our radios in reserve.<br>> So what has happened is on my VX-6R I see the MODE is set for NFM. Chirp<br>> will not accept this setting for the VX-7R so I changed it to FM before<br>> uploading it.<br>><br>> Now on those frequencies set as ###.####, The VX-7R transmits a constant<br>> noise that sounds like an old telephone ring with a muffled ringer. It is<br>> unusable. However if I manually program the frequency in VFO mode it works<br>> great.<br><br>I just took a look at the specs for that radio on the Yaesu website.<br>They don't mention anything about transmitting on the FRS channels or<br>what mode is should be in. Maybe the issue is that you're trying to<br>get the radio to do something it wasn't designed to do.<br><br>Tom KD7LXL<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com<br>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users<br></body></html>