[Is Radioddity DB-20G 20 watt mobile radio good?]

This radio is still working quite well overall. Has anyone had luck with CHIRP programming? I wish the CPS I had was more user friendly...... biggest drawback to this unit really is the programming! Thanks

[Is Radioddity DB-20G 20 watt mobile radio good?]

1 hour ago, WRYS709 said:

 

Using your photo above, you have Channel 25 in the A Bank and VFO in the B Bank

Hit the FUN button to enter Menu Mode and use the V/M and Main as up and down keys to run to Menu 19:DSPSUB.

Using the Up and Down arrow keys your selections in this menu 19 are: Off, FREQ, VOLT and it looks like you are in FREQ mode in Menu 19, which is correct for dual monitor. Hit the FUN button to exit Menu Mode for now.

Now Hit the Main button to swap the B Bank VFO into the top (main monitor) and A Bank Channel 25 goes to the bottom (secondary monitor).  You can now exit VFO Mode and have the B Bank enter Channel Mode by hitting the V/M button and then select your secondary monitor channel using the Up and Down Arrow keys.

Hit MAIN to restore your A Bank Channel 25 to your Primary monitor and the newly selected B Bank Channel goes down to the Secondary monitor.

Unless you find a way around this upcoming problem that I will note, I do not like this feature because I find that whichever channel receives a signal first will take priority in the receiver.  

So if I am listening to a conversation in the A Bank and they let the carrier go and at that moment someone hits a carrier on the B Bank Channel, it will take priority on my receiver and I cannot hear the other party's response on the A Bank.

Maybe there is an option around this, but I have not yet found it, so I go back to Menu 19:DSPSUB and turn it to OFF and just use the single monitor.

Just checked that menu sub - had it set to FREQ and it seems (seems....) to be working right now! Weird, maybe it was an oddity. So far, this radio has been working really well (follow up to my last post a month or more ago). Just been using it as a base here at the house, but size and volume wise would am considering installing as a true mobile.

[Is Radioddity DB-20G 20 watt mobile radio good?]

I may have missed this, but.....

 

Does the DB20-G dual monitor? I know there is the "A/B" channel selection, but I cannot get mine to monitor both only the "main". Scan works fine. Any tips? Thanks!

[Is Radioddity DB-20G 20 watt mobile radio good?]

On 3/23/2024 at 7:51 PM, WRYS709 said:

What version is your firmware?

V3.0

 

FWIW I took the squelch up to 7 in multiple steps, just to test. It seems to have made it better, for the most part. Other radios I have only gone to 3-5, just difference in equipment I guess?

[Is Radioddity DB-20G 20 watt mobile radio good?]

This has been a good thread to follow. I have a DB20-G, and all the functions are working great with one interesting aside....

Any time a transmission comes in, the squelch STAYS broke after I am finished Rx'ing until either I Tx or press another button on the radio. Anyone else had this happen? I am assuming it is some setting I have off, I did try adjusting squelch up a bit to no avail. I also see the tail squelch termination and some other settings, my research has not given me great answers.

 

Any tips/tricks are appreciated!

[Baofeng UV-5G Plus Software]

I have been using the CPS for a while now with my UV-5G Plus radios, its.... OK.

One feature in chirp I enjoy is the ease of cut/paste and inserting rows pretty much like you would in Excel. CPS, at least for me, does not want to do that.