<div dir="auto">Thanks Jim. I will try using the F8HP to program it. I failed to mention that I did try to upload repeater info into the radio using RepeaterBook but it ended up the same way as me manually programming it in chirp. I can easily program these repeaters into the radio manually with VFO so that may be the way I go for the HAM frequencies. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:54 AM Jim Unroe <<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:34 PM ken smith <<a href="mailto:ken.smith29@gmail.com" target="_blank">ken.smith29@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I have successfully been able to use Chirp to upload .csv files etc. All communications between the software and radio seem to work. However, when manually loading HAM repeater information, the upload info seems to not take correctly. For example, I used the software to put in a 2m frequency, no tone, “-“ offset at 0.60 and low transmit power. After the upload, the radio shows the correct frequency and memory name but that’s it. The transmit power shows Medium (which isn’t even an option in the software) and also shows both “+” and “-“ on the radio screen. When keying the mike, it shows CT as if there is a tone being transmitted. Something is not syncing right but I am not getting any error messages. Any help here is appreciated.<br>
<br>
It is hard to know what you may have done wrong without having access<br>
to the CSV file or the actual "image" sent to the radio. I will do my<br>
best to guess.<br>
<br>
These UV-5R and UV-82 like radios do not use or store the shift<br>
direction or offset in a memory channel. They aren't required. For<br>
this reason, the SFT-D and OFFSET menus only function in VFO mode.<br>
<br>
What is stored in a memory channel is an RX frequency and a TX<br>
frequency. When the RX frequency and TX frequency are not the same (as<br>
they would not be the same for a repeater, odd-split, cross-band or TX<br>
disabled channel), there is a "+-" indication in the upper status<br>
display area. This is to let the user know the RX frequency and TX<br>
frequency of the selected channel are not the same. CHIRP lets users<br>
enter the parameters for a repeater as a frequency, shift direction<br>
and offset, but in the case of a UV-5R and similar radios, CHIRP<br>
computes the TX frequency and stores that in the "image" to be sent to<br>
the radio because that is what it requires.<br>
<br>
Since your radio can display "MID" as a TXP option, you have a radio<br>
with 3 TX power levels. You are most likely incorrectly selecting and<br>
using the UV-5R model when downloading from your radio. The UV-5R<br>
model selection is for a UV-5R like radio with 2 TX power levels. A<br>
UV-5R image with the TXP set to HIGH uploaded to a radio with 3 TX<br>
power levels would be correctly set to MID in a radio with 3 TX power<br>
levels. To work with your radio correctly, you should be selecting<br>
BF-F8HP, which is for UV-5R like radio models with 3 TX power levels,<br>
to program your radio.<br>
<br>
If there is a CT showing up in the left status display area when the<br>
[PTT] button button is pressed and nothing showing when it is<br>
released, you must Tone Mode set to Tone and the radio is picking up<br>
the default 88.5 Hz tone. It should be set to "(None)" in CHIRP and in<br>
the CSV file it would be {blank} (in other words there would be<br>
nothing between the commas (",,").<br>
<br>
One way to help understand how the fields of a CSV file should look<br>
would be to program some working memories in the CHIRP spreadsheet<br>
style memory editor and export them to a CSV file. An easy way to get<br>
working channels would be to import some from RepeaterBook or load one<br>
of the stock config files.<br>
<br>
Jim KC9HI<br>
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