CHIRP

Please attach the original image saved from your radio upon your first successful download.

Other Settings, VHF upper limit is set to 174. it will be tri-band only after extending it up to 2xx.

Wito Krasnal wrote in #note-3:

Other Settings, VHF upper limit is set to 174. it will be tri-band only after extending it up to 2xx.

I'll try that now, anything about the scanning on the UHF channels?

Charlie-grae Leatherland wrote in #note-5:

Charlie-grae Leatherland wrote in #note-4:

Wito Krasnal wrote in #note-3:

Other Settings, VHF upper limit is set to 174. it will be tri-band only after extending it up to 2xx.

I'll try that now, anything about the scanning on the UHF channels?

Using both the UV-5R and UV-5Rx3 from Baofeng and Radioddity I cannot change the VHF upper limit, I get the error in the photo linked.

This is the correct message for your radio. It tells you that CHIRP isn't going to upload the change to the Aux memory area since it is understood that it can cause a problem in radios of this type.

Are you sure that the second image that you uploaded is an unedited copy of the first successful download? If it was, it was downloaded as a UV-5R, not a UV-5RX3.

Just the same lets see if CHIRP-next's automatic backup has any available in the backup folder.

1. Type %appdata% in the Type here to search box near the left end of the Windows task bar and press [Enter].
2. Click on the %appdata% File folder icon that appears.
3. In the Windows File Explorer that appears double-click the CHIRP folder.
4. Double-click the backups folder entry to see the download backups that CHIRP has made for you.

If the currently selected backups folder contains backup 'images' from this radio, please attach the one with the oldest file date to this issue.

I've had a look at these img's and I think my main mistake was programming the radio with the UV-5R preset before the UV-5Rx3 preset and only found my issue after finishing all the programming.

Charlie-grae Leatherland wrote in #note-7:

I have two backups for the radio, one where I used the UV-5R Baofeng Preset and the UV-5Rx3 Radioddity, I'll link both.

Thanks. What was used to program these radios before yesterday afternoon?

I've had this radio for a while and just dealt with memorising which frequencies were what, I got the programming cable yesterday afternoon and only used CHIRP.

Charlie-grae Leatherland wrote in #note-10:

I've had this radio for a while and just dealt with memorising which frequencies were what, I got the programming cable yesterday afternoon and only used CHIRP.

The oldest backup from CHIRP shows that 3 of the channels (1, 3 and 4) already had channel names. Channel names can't be added using the radio's keypad so some kind of programming software had to have been used on this radio prior to your first download yesterday.

Jim Unroe wrote in #note-11:

The oldest backup from CHIRP shows that 3 of the channels (1, 3 and 4) already had channel names. Channel names can't be added using the radio's keypad so some kind of programming software had to have been used on this radio prior to your first download yesterday.

I used an older version of CHIRP legacy to program an older icom IC-E90 and used that older program to download the UV-5R but I didnt make any changes to the radio on the legacy version and used CHIRP next to change it. I can't find any backups on the old computer and can't find any older backups of the radio before any of the changes through CHIRP next.
I know I seem to be making this quite hard but thankyou for you help so far.

Just done this, thank you for your time and knowlage. This has worked perfectly!

p.s
I have definitely saved the stock img XD

Regards,
Charlie-Grae