Displaying Channel Name on a UV-5R

[WSIC904]

Programmed a UV-5R using Chirp.  The MURS, FRS, NOAA Weather Frequency, and GMRS and names are displayed on Chirp.  In the MR setting, how may the names be displayed on the UV-5R after successfully uploading the image to the UV-5R?  Thank you!

WISC904

[OffRoaderX]

I do not recall the exact name of it, but there is a Menu Setting that you can change to show name, frequency or channel.. Might be called MDF or something like that.. Find it, then set it to 'name'.

 

[UncleYoda]

On my oldest UV-5R:  menu 21 MDF-A, menu 22 MDF-B (A & B correspond to the 2 displayed channels)

*All those things you mention need to be transmit blocked to stay w/in regs.   And you need a ham license for talking on ham frequencies.

[WSIC904]

16 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

I do not recall the exact name of it, but there is a Menu Setting that you can change to show name, frequency or channel.. Might be called MDF or something like that.. Find it, then set it to 'name'.

 

Thank you OffRoaderX and Uncle Yoda.  Its in Basic Settings, under Display Mode A and Display Mode B.  Using the pull down menu, the selection is now set to NAME.

[OffRoaderX]

9 minutes ago, UncleYoda said:

*All those things you mention need to be transmit blocked to stay w/in regs.   And you need a ham license for talking on ham frequencies.

There is no rule or regulation that says these frequencies must be "transmit blocked", and, nobody asked anyway..Stop making up lies, its making you look ignorant.

[WRCZ387]

Disclaimer: I'm still on CHIRP Legacy, so this may be different on the current/new CHIRP

Open your UV5R file in CHIRP, click the Settings tab, then click Basic Settings, you'll see Display Mode (A) & Display Mode (B), click there, you'll have the choices of Name, Channel, Frequency

Select Name, save your file, re-upload, & you won't have to go into the menu settings

It's been my experience that on some, not all, radios, that if you change something in the settings through the menu, the radio doesn't/won't keep it

If you make your edits in the software & upload them, the edits are remembered & kept

YMMV

73

[UncleYoda]

3 minutes ago, WSIC904 said:

Its in Basic Settings, under Display Mode A and Display Mode B.  Using the pull down menu, the selection is now set to NAME.

But that's in Chirp!  You asked how to do it after uploading, so the answer was referring to using the radio's menu, i.e. pushing buttons.

[Everyone should read the regs carefully yourself, not take advice from random internet people.]

[Northcutt114]

32 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

I do not recall the exact name of it, but there is a Menu Setting that you can change to show name, frequency or channel.. Might be called MDF or something like that.. Find it, then set it to 'name'.

 

This ^ is correct. It's menu setting 21 & 22. MDF-A and MDF-B, hit the Menu button again to get the cursor down and then push the up or down arrow to toggle between Channel and Name.

 

ETA: I see this has already been answered. 

[OffRoaderX]

37 minutes ago, UncleYoda said:

Everyone should read the regs carefully yourself, not take advice from random internet people.

...because too many of them tell lies and fairy-tales to make themselves look more important...

[WRYS709]

1 hour ago, UncleYoda said:

On my oldest UV-5R:  menu 21 MDF-A, menu 22 MDF-B (A & B correspond to the 2 displayed channels)

*All those things you mention need to be transmit blocked to stay w/in regs.   And you need a ham license for talking on ham frequencies.

Why are you telling this to OP who already IS a licensed Ham?!?

I am convinced that some of the members of this Forum think they get paid by their sheer number of posts!!

[amaff]

40 minutes ago, WRYS709 said:

I am convinced that some of the members of this Forum think they get paid by their sheer number of posts!!