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OrbitalCannon

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  1. Worse case I can hopefully reflash with the factory tooling, or I'm out $50 for a new pair of radios. Not a huge loss. But so far, everything works as desired.
  2. I figured out the repeater issue I was having. Radios were too close to each other. So long as I'm not holding hands with the person I'm talking to everything is fine. I'll preface this: I take no responsibility if you brick/break your radio. I do not know the legal ramifications and accept no responsibility there either. I recommend AGAINST doing this. Misconfiguration in this manner may TX on freqs you aren't allowed to, which is illegal. It's up to you to confirm the TX freq before pushing it to your radio. I reached out to Radioddity regarding additional GMRS TX channels and they did say it's in the works, so there's an official patch on the way which sounds like it will allow TX on all channels in the radio. Would be best to wait for that in my opinion. If through all that you still want to go the backdoor route of programming additional TX channels, read on. If you activate Developer mode in Chirp, you gain the ability to add TX channels via the 3rd tab labeled "Browser". From there navigate to root>memory, each one of these is a stored channel. The "txfreq" value is what you want to adjust. Set to whatever the "rxfreq" value is +500000, that will put the TX at a +5MHz offset. After you do this you cannot change anything on the normal Memories tab or it resets all channels "txfreq" above 30 to 166666665 which disables TX. Alternatively, there's a developer module in one of the Chirp bugs you can load which treats the UV-5X as a UV-5R, allowing you to write whatever values you want to the normal Memories tab. I think this method will disappear as it allows setting TX frequencies outside of the GMRS approved freqs very easily. The other method does as well, but it's a diag mode and is super clunky to use. Still trying to figure out how to enable TX in VFO mode. But that's honestly less important so long as I can save values to memory channels I'm happy. Again, the above is at your own risk. You may break or explode your radio, I have not tested the entirety so ramifications are unknown. So far as I know, neither Radioddity not Chirp approve of doing this. So you might void the warranty on your device as they may not be designed to operate in this fashion.
  3. Have you had any issues accessing repeaters with your units? The one near me I can hear open squelch but is entirely silent on my handset. On my Cobra Micro-talk I can hear myself plain as day. The Cobra does have a wider emitter bandwidth which might be causing that issue. I did adjust the squelch settings today in multiples of 6 starting with 0 then 2. Seems to work really well. Also found a couple of ways to program additional TX channels into the radio in order to preload more GMRS repeater configs. Is messy and probably has a downside somewhere which I have yet to find. Hoping Chirp makes an official way to do that. Tossed a Signal Stuff Signal Stick antenna onto both of mine today and wow they pickup signal much clearer now. You'll want the SMA Male connectors and a rubber spacer if you go that route.
  4. I can sorta confirm. I don't have an RTL-SDR or other spectral analyzer handy, checked a repeater I had programmed in and confirmed I was able to trigger before. Doesn't key up if set to 0.5MHz so it seems like it's allowing a write to other values. I did just do a pull from my radios and both had 4-5 repeater channels where the offset had glitched to 0.5MHz. Noticed it the first few times when I moved channels around in CHIRP and the 5 would change to a 0.5. Missed it at some point and had to use the factory tool to fix it. Another radio oddity (heh), the squelch does weird things on my unit. If I pick a local NOAA site with TDR on and SQL set to 5 it reads fine and reliably leaves it open and audible. With TDR set to off squelch is closed and I can't hear NOAA regardless of what channel or A/B setting I pick, until I drop squelch to 0-1. Then it opens. The firmware on these seems to be very buggy still. Is it too much to ask for 128 GMRS repeater configurations?
  5. I meant pull as you mention pulling from radio. Crazy that you managed to get the offset adjusted to 0.5. Does your display show "+-" on the repeater channels? Does on mine which seems like an error. Also disappointed I can't transmit in VFO regardless of freq.
  6. Did you pull to confirm the offset had programmed that way? Chirp for some reason occasionally glitches all my repeater offsets to + 0.5MHz. Other weird thing, the handset lists offset of 0MHz and no change can be made manually. I was able to confirm that TX/RX tones function as desired for repeater transmissions, which again, can only be programmed into channel 23-30 for TX. Really hoping if they release another firmware, they set limits on just the TX freq, and not lock channels to TX freq.
  7. Just picked up a pair of these UV-5X (UV-5G) units from Radioddity and am running into a new issue with the revised firmware. Writing new freqs doesn't work correctly. Example: With CHIRP I can write all the repeater channels I want into the config file, great. Flash it, re-read. Every single channel above 30 has duplex set to OFF. So all I can do is transmit on 30 channels, the rest are just listen. So much for programming more repeaters. Example2: FREQ for channel 23-30 is static, you can't change it either on the device or in CHIRP. So I can only have 1 repeater per channel assigned at any one point in time. Does anybody know how to resolve either of these issues?
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