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Baofeng UV-5R
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Dual watch with new firmware #15

Open KD7LRJ opened 11 years ago

KD7LRJ commented 11 years ago

In Chapter 6. Dual Watch it says that "Certain functions are not available while in dual watch mode:"

With newer firmware revisions, these limitations have been removed (the first 2 anyway).

xles commented 11 years ago

Roger that, any insight on what firmware revision brought the change?

KD7LRJ commented 11 years ago

Sorry, I should have included that in the inintial comment. Version BFB251 and newer do not lock out those functions when Dual Watch is On.

KD7LRJ commented 11 years ago

Oops, didn't know what "Close and Comment" meant. Reopening for tracking purposes...

xles commented 11 years ago

Haha, I've accidentally closed issues too, it happens!

But, 251 you say? How odd... My reference unit is on that firmware... And it does indeed lock those out for me.

KD7LRJ commented 11 years ago

My units have 281 and 291, so I know it doesn't lock out on those - I said 251 based on this page: http://uv5r.kc9hi.net/files/UV-5R%20Menus.pdf under the entry for "7 TDR"

xles commented 11 years ago

I see, that is indeed most curious. I shall contact Jim about that and find out exactly what's going on there. Thanks for the heads up, and I'll get back to you on that.

KC9HI commented 11 years ago

I just went back through the posts on the baofeng_uv5r group and believe that BFB281 and newer corrects the TDR bugs. I have updated the "Reference for UV-5R Menus" accordingly.

kc7qcs commented 11 years ago

I confirm that firmware level BFB281 allows switching of power between LOW and HIGH while Dual Watch is enabled and in Channel mode.

I admit that I'm too lazy tonight to try saving a duplex channel while Dual Watch is in effect. Maybe later...

Interestingly enough, my first test case used a duplex channel as A and a simplex channel as B. When the "current" A/B setting was B (simplex), the Reverse function changed the A display (!) to the reverse frequency (toggle). Later, I set duplex memories in both A and B; this time the Reverse function showed the reverse frequency for whichever channel had been selected using A/B.

kc7qcs commented 11 years ago

On 11/17/2012 5:23 PM, KC9HI wrote:

I just went back through the posts on the baofeng_uv5r group and believe that BFB281 and newer corrects the TDR bugs. I have updated the "Reference for UV-5R Menus" accordingly.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/radiodoc/uv-5r/issues/15#issuecomment-10481330.

I confirm that firmware level BFB281 allows switching of power between LOW and HIGH while Dual Watch is enabled and in Channel mode.

I admit that I'm too lazy tonight to try saving a duplex channel while Dual Watch is in effect. Maybe later...

Interestingly enough, my first test case used a duplex channel as A and a simplex channel as B. When the "current" A/B setting was B (simplex), the Reverse function changed the A display (!) to the reverse frequency (toggle). Later, I set duplex memories in both A and B; this time the Reverse function showed the reverse frequency for whichever channel had been selected using A/B.

73

Geoff Billin kc7qcs@arrl.net

KC9HI commented 11 years ago

The 'reverse' function reverses both the [A] and [B] displays.

For simplex you don't see the change because the RX and TX frequencies are the same.

If the selected display contains a TX inhibited channel, pressing the [*] key results in the 'TX inhibited bleep' being heard and entering of 'reverse' mode is aborted. If the non-selected display contains a TX inhibited channel, entering 'reverse' mode causes '???.???" to be shown in the non-active display.