<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div></div><div>HI</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470909593512_3653"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470909593512_3652">Exactly. Thank you all for your guidance. I need all the help I can get and I appreciate it.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470909593512_3664"><br></div><div><br></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470909593512_3654">Bernard Dowley<br><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470909593512_3656"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470909593512_3655"><i><br></i></div></div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, 10 August 2016, 23:51, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 2:42 PM, <<a href="mailto:bernard.dowley@sky.com" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bernard.dowley@sky.com">bernard.dowley@sky.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi Jim<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thank you for your information, which I didn't know. Assuming I have not<br clear="none">> misunderstood your procedure, what I want to do is remove the 2 metre<br clear="none">> amateur band plan, so that I can program in only frequencies that I require<br clear="none">> and not allowing the user to access the amateur bands.. Your suggestion<br clear="none">> appears to only affect the user (Chirp) programming feature. That's assuming<br clear="none">> I have not misunderstood your suggestion. Any help is always appreciated.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Bernie<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 2E0NCI<br clear="none">> Bernard Dowley<br clear="none">> UK<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1 Download from your UV-5R into CHIRP<br clear="none">2 Save the newly downloaded tab to a CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file as a backup<br clear="none">3 Access the Settings -> Other Settings menu<br clear="none">4a swap the VHF low and high band limits (so the low limit is higher<br clear="none">than the high limit)<br clear="none">4b swap the UHF low and high band limits (so the low limit is higher<br clear="none">than the high limit)<br clear="none">5 upload the changes to the radio<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Now go into the UV-5R's VFO mode. Try to enter a frequency into a VFO.<br clear="none">You can't. The VFOs are effectively disabled.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">With the VFOs disabled, the user is not able to program any channels.<br clear="none">The user can only use the channels that were programmed into the radio<br clear="none">using software.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It that what you are looking for?<div class="yqt0460528369" id="yqtfd52963"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Jim KC9HI<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">chirp_users mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br clear="none">This message was sent to Bernard Dowley at <a href="mailto:bernard.dowley@sky.com" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bernard.dowley@sky.com">bernard.dowley@sky.com</a><br clear="none">To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>