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<DIV>Dear Chirp Team:</DIV>
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<DIV> I’m a newcomer to Chirp, having found it following an interest
in getting a repeater-capable handheld, that led me to Btech’s GMRS-V2 as a
starter radio. While Chrip presently has a beta-version interface to the
GMRS-V2, I found it to work well and I’ve been able to program about 20
frequencies into the radio with regional repeater stations, and a mixture of VHF
and UHF frequencies for local fire, police, businesses, etc. Chirp makes this
relatively easy (provided you enter all of the data correctly, of course) and is
more user-friendly than the CPS software from Baofeng, which is really meant for
their UV-82 series on which the GMRS-V2 is based.</DIV>
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<DIV> One thing I’ve noticed is that while Chirp uploads to the
radio and gets CTCSS and DCS codes and other settings correct, after programming
the radio is showing the “+-“ symbol for a frequency offset on all of the
channels that I put in with no offset. I checked the image file I’d saved and
see that the column labeled “Duplex” does show as “off” in all cases. The radio
works OK, though, so I describe this as more of a feature and less of a
bug...</DIV>
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<DIV> Does anyone have an idea of something I might be doing
incorrectly in the use of Chirp? Or is this a feature of the current Chirp
version when writing to firmware in the GMRS-V2?</DIV>
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<DIV>Sincerely Yours,</DIV>
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<DIV>Sam Thurman</DIV>
<DIV>Valencia, CA</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>