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It would appear that these radios don't come from the factory with the values for the new feature fully populated. Try the following...

1. Tap the [VFO/MR] key as needed to switch to VFO mode
2. Key in a VHF frequency
3. Key in a 220 frequency
4. Key in a UHF frequency
5. Tap the [A/B] key to switch to the other VFO
6. Repeat steps 2 through 4

Now download from your UV-5X3 and look to see if the Settings tabs appears. Report back the results.

Thanks,
Jim KC9HI

Dustin Barrons wrote:

Reply #2 worked!!! Using CHIRP daily -20211216, I cycled VHF/220/UHF channels on A and B, redownloaded, and voila! Settings now appear.

Thank you TREMENDOUSLY for the quick and accurate response. Much appreciated!!!

After further review, it would have only required cycling through the B VFO. The A VFO is fully populated and only the B VFO is missing a value causing an out-of-range value that broke the display of the Settings tabs.

Jim KC9HI

Hi Jim,

Just checked my 5X3 files
Loaded a saved file and my settings do not show.
Will get my 5X3 radios and do a fresh download to see if the settings show.
Probably have access to them in a frw days. maybe Dec22.

David Billcheck wrote:

Hi Jim,

Just checked my 5X3 files
Loaded a saved file and my settings do not show.
Will get my 5X3 radios and do a fresh download to see if the settings show.
Probably have access to them in a frw days. maybe Dec22.

Right. Any previously saved file will have an unpopulated UHF sub-VFO frequency slot that causes the settings to not display. You will either have to upload each file into your radio, do the procedure on the B VFO like you did before and then download to CHIRP to fix it. Or, better yet, just wait until tomorrow when the CHIRP daily build with the fix will be available.

Jim KC9HI

Just loaded uv5x3_6VFOs.py and now I get my settings back
Did not need to load a module when originally got radios and
downloaded a factory image and modded my settings.

Used BTECH UV5X3 straight off of the drop down menu for BTECH

Something is wierd here. Didn't need to load a module before for the 5X3

Dave

Was on 20211208 daily and have always shown 6 VFO's on the settings page "other settings".
This new build 20211216 will not show settings unless I load module uv5x3_6VFOs.py.
Other modules show blank settings page.

Dave

Sorry, Dave. I got you mixed up with Dustin.

There was a new feature added to the BTECH UV-5X3 in early December. It works fine with a radio that has been in service and frequencies keyed into the VFO. It was discovered later that the "factory" state had a frequency missing in one of the sub-VFO memory slots which the code wasn't expecting (or prepared to handle) a missing frequency.

You can install and use a CHIRP daily build from November if you need to run tonight. Or you can just wait until tomorrow (shortly after midnight PDT) and install the new CHIRP daily build with the fix.

Jim KC9HI

Thanks Jim.

Tomorrows fix will be welcomed.

Dave

This issue was related to the BTECH UV-5X3. Since you added to this issue, I assumed that your radios were the BTECH UV-5X3. This issue does not affect the UV-5R model in any way.

A missing settings tab is usually caused by one or more setting in the radio is set to an invalid and/or out-of-range value. Open up an issue for your radios and I will be able to help you with it.

Jim KC9HI