CHIRP

James Moreton wrote in #note-2:

Hi, It definitely does have FM radio because I can change the FM frequency manually on the handset just not via the software.

Then this model stores it in a different place or in a different way than CHIRP currently knows about.

Attach 2 CHIRP Radio Image (*.img) files with the only difference between them being the selected broadcast FM frequency and mention what frequency is selected in each image.

Jim KC9HI

James Moreton wrote in #note-4:

Hi Jim, the older file dated (16.01.23) is how the image was from factory, the FM frequency was set at 76.0 FM.

The newer image file dated (23.01.23) is the FM freqency changed to 97.9 FM just to test it.

Regards
James

There are too many differences between these 2 files of several days apart. Please set the FM to a different frequency and download. Then change FM to a second frequency and download again. If you would. put the frequency as part of the file name.

Jim KC9HI

My CHIRP won't load these last 4 files because they don't have the meta data blob at their ends? I have no ides how you were able to accomplish that!

Anyway, regarding your issue, it appears that Baofeng has changed how the FM frequency is stored in your UV-9R Pro. Hopefully this is something unique to the "Pro" models.

I will have to think about this some. In the mean time you need to upgrade to CHIRP-next. The legacy CHIRP's code was frozen at the beginning of this year so any "fix", if there is one, is going to be for the CHIRP-next builds.

So in the mean time you will just have to set the frequency in the radio and then download into CHIRP and save it. Then as long as you don't mess the setting in CHIRP, CHIRP will always put your frequency back into the radio when you upload.

Jim KC9HI

Jim Unroe wrote in #note-7:

My CHIRP won't load these last 4 files because they don't have the meta data blob at their ends? I have no ides how you were able to accomplish that!

Anyway, regarding your issue, it appears that Baofeng has changed how the FM frequency is stored in your UV-9R Pro. Hopefully this is something unique to the "Pro" models.

I will have to think about this some. In the mean time you need to upgrade to CHIRP-next. The legacy CHIRP's code was frozen at the beginning of this year so any "fix", if there is one, is going to be for the CHIRP-next builds.

So in the mean time you will just have to set the frequency in the radio and then download into CHIRP and save it. Then as long as you don't mess the setting in CHIRP, CHIRP will always put your frequency back into the radio when you upload.

Jim KC9HI

Thanks for taking a look at it, and no worries I know its not that important with commms, I just wanted to try the UV-9R over all my other UR-5R's and I am still enjoing all of them

James Moreton wrote in #note-9:

Thanks for taking a look at it, and no worries I know its not that important with commms, I just wanted to try the UV-9R over all my other UR-5R's and I am still enjoing all of them

Sorry, it's because I put a "." in the freqency it took the ".img" off the end of the files

No. It has nothing to do with the extension missing. My CHIRP won't load them. What version of CHIRP are you using (Help -> About)?

Jim

Jim Unroe wrote in #note-10:

James Moreton wrote in #note-9:

Thanks for taking a look at it, and no worries I know its not that important with commms, I just wanted to try the UV-9R over all my other UR-5R's and I am still enjoing all of them

Sorry, it's because I put a "." in the freqency it took the ".img" off the end of the files

No. It has nothing to do with the extension missing. My CHIRP won't load them. What version of CHIRP are you using (Help -> About)?

Jim

I was using CHIRP chirp-next-20230127-installer.exe to save these files.

I downloaded chirp-next-20230128-installer.exe today.

We really want to make sure you're actually using the version you and we think you are. Can you capture a debug log (Help menu) and attach it? That will give us the very specific info we need to be sure.

Support should be in tomorrow's CHIRP-next build.

Jim KC9HI