Feature #6891
closedUV-6R use 7th character
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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).
Updated by J Macken over 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.
Updated by J Macken over 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.
Updated by Bernhard Hailer about 4 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Subject changed from UV-6R Bugs/features to UV-6R use 7th character
Updated by Anonymous almost 2 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset github|b1d23ec6fd403529ef13e9cc4d9ccf433cb0bc3c.