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<p>Exactly. Also don't be confused by the people in this thread
talking about MD-380 radios, which are DMR radios and have nothing
at all to do with Chirp. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Tom Henderson</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/20/20 7:29 AM, Dennis Wage wrote:<br>
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clear on this.<br>
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NOT a complete picture of the software on your radio,
correct?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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backup of what Chirp can edit (change from default).</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:monospace,monospace">So downloading from
your "out of the box" radio and saving an image file is only
to restore the Chirp editable menu settings and the memories
back to the settings that came from the factory.</div>
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Chirp can however upload bad data to the radio, (caused by
erroneous user input) that is outside the range of the
particular field item it was entered into, and can brick or
lock the radio. This image file can fix this, and this only.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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Chirp image files are?</div>
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