70 ‐ Tips & Tricks and Known Issues

Warning

After some unfortunate incidents by users I'm going to put this warning and disclaimer up. DO NOT attempt to transmit without the proper precautions in place. Transmitting 5W of RF energy centimetres away from a PC can LITERALLY destroy it, it's almost like an EMP at that distance.

Get your antenna away from the PC by using an external antenna

HUGE text on the LCD screen in QS-Dock

If upgrading from a version before 0.27.3q the new version will likely have HUGE text on the LCD screen. This is because I had to change the way the "F Stretch" feature worked. If this happens open up your settings and change "F Stretch" to a value around 0.20

Chirp does not work

This is caused by Radio control communication between radio and PC via the programming interface.

Solution is to STOP the communication

• Change Menu 60.Remote to OFF
• Now Chirp can be used.
• When ready, switch ON 60.remote or Power-Off and -On (Remote is default ON after power-up)

Suggest to use an external antenna

Use and SMA-female to BNC-female connector/adapter

• so you can easily connect the external antenna cable to the radio

• extra option is to extend that to PL256 with is adapter

Converter cable

An other suggestion is this converter cable