I have noticed this intermittently on the lower end Kenwood LMR radios as well. <span></span><br><br>On Monday, August 22, 2016, Ken <<a href="mailto:ken@wa0sbu.com">ken@wa0sbu.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Jim. I was just curious. BTW, thanks for all your hard work you<br>
have put into Chirp and the help you offer others.<br>
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Ken<br>
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On 08/22/2016 07:15 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Ken <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'ken@wa0sbu.com')">ken@wa0sbu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I'm curious, why does Chirp advise you on Baofengs "(volume may need<br>
>> to be set at 100%)"?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Ken<br>
>><br>
> In 4+ years I have been programming these radios I have only turned<br>
> the volume up enough to get them powered on. These radios are<br>
> programmed digitally using serial communications. The programming<br>
> cables that I have don't even have wires for the speaker audio or mic<br>
> audio. The volume level should not make any difference.<br>
><br>
> That being said, someone insisted that it clearly made a repeatable<br>
> difference for them. Volume low = unreliable cloning. Volume high =<br>
> reliable cloning. Maybe something in the volume settings of these<br>
> cheap radios affects the TTL levels of the serial communications.<br>
> Setting the volume to high shouldn't hurt anything (the internal<br>
> speaker is disconnected) so I reluctantly added "(volume may need to<br>
> be set at 100%)".<br>
><br>
> Jim KC9HI<br>
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