<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">As long as you are aware that those radios are not legal to use in the US for FRS frequencies. Not type accepted, removable antennas, etc. <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Jardy Dawson WA7JRD<div>Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies <span style="font-size: 13pt;">using the Universal Translator. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 10, 2019, at 14:18, Dan Jolley via chirp_users <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div>Well ya'll, I finally got it working. Besides CHIRP, I had a couple of old BF-888s Chinese programs that would normally change it to English, but these would not, and I still don't know why. These radios definitely have a bug in the software!<br><br>I assume ya'll have enough original factory images from the Baofeng BF-888s so I don't have to supply any and you can reference them.<br><br>I took care to test for English or Chinese as I ran these tests.<br><br>Test 1 - I entered all FRS frequencies and removed the Chinese Frequencies. I noticed as I installed the FRS frequencies, all of the characters in the other colums went away and I never lost the English from the radio. (the characters in the original image columns).<br><br>Test 2 - Removed all Tone Modes.<br><br>Test 3 - Changed the mode from NM to NFM<br><br>Test 4 - Removed all skipped channels.<br><br>So now I have 2 new working BF-888s that Amazon dropped off at lunch. I can't think of anything better to do on this cold wet rainy day... it took me 3 hours to get it to work. I'll leave the technical aspect why they didn't work to the pros & programmers.</div><div><br></div><div>I could have given you an already working image but I put a lot of work into this. Here's the working image. I know there's more info to add into the lists & columns, so someone may encounter the Chinese again.</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't fix it, I got the radios so I could program the FRS channels in them, and it started working.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><Baofeng_BF-888_20190510 WORKING CHINESE IMAGE IN ENGLISH.img></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br><span>This message was sent to Jardy at <a href="mailto:jardy72@yahoo.com">jardy72@yahoo.com</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>