Feature #6891: UV-6R use 7th character - CHIRP

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Feature #6891

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UV-6R use 7th character

Added by J Macken almost 5 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

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Closed

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Normal

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Start date:

06/29/2019

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% Done:

100%

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Chirp Version:

daily

Model affected:

uv-6r

I read the instructions above:

Description

Using a new (ought to be brand new ...) ver HDBF230.
This radio/firmware takes 7 characters in 'name' field, chirp is only allowing only 6. This has an oddment that on pre-programmed channels (say from Baofeng's equivalent software) the 7th character is retained by the radio and never overwritten/cleared. This leads to some odd names now in my set and may need me to investigate further to see where that coruption comes from.
The ower-on message field (1) hasn't worked, I think because chip had allowed a "/" but the radio says no. Again, I need to play further to prove (it may be that this field isn't really displayable).

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Updated by J Macken almost 5 years ago

The last paragraph written should read: The Power-on message ...

this isn't the "/", it seems the radio is ignoring the (any) overwrite/update allowed by the chirp field.

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Updated by J Macken almost 5 years ago

Latest info.
The VIP software allows 7-character names (although fewer 'special' characters (generally just A-Z,a-z,0-9,spc?). This would be really good if fixable.
The VIP software allows both message fields to be updated and this 'sticks'. A re-read into Chirp sucessfully updates the two fields (in Settings/Other setting/POM1 & POM2). But Chirp is unable to write these fields back into the radio.

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