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Listening to KX3B, I occasionally learn something. Some radios have a button or menu to do away with the offset on a repeater, so you can talk simplex on the output frequency when out of range of the repeater.

I’ve done this by accident.

I have my UV-K5 and UV-K6 running aubs 00.07 firmware. I added a simplex frequency (446.100MHz) to use as with my local cross-band repeater in position 110. I added the new channel to scan list 1.

Upon powering on the radio, I could scan lists 1 (local repeaters) and 4 (satellites) together. When I press the up arrow to advance off an active channel, the scan would now skip list 1, and go right to 4, and continue to skip list 1. Before I realized it was happening, I thought the day was super quiet.

I dropping the repeater frequency from scan list 1, and the scanning behaved correctly. I tried removing another channel from scan list 1, and reintroducing channel 110 to the list, but that didn’t fix it, so it’s not an issue with the count.

Much of scan list 1 is lower in the channels, so I moved my new repeater frequency from channel 110 to position 30, right after all my other simplex channels. That seems to work fine, so that’s how I’m leaving it.

I may need to try some more things and figure out a reproduction to file a bug on the project:

• Is it something about the frequency of 460.100?
• Or is channel 110 the problem?
• Would another frequency in that spot be a problem?
• Are there other channels that would trigger the issue?

Prime Day popped up a few good-enough sales, so I bought a few things.

• 50w dummy load
• TIDradio TD-H8 - HT, 10W, bluetooth, clear case, etc
• TYT TH-UV8000D - HT, 10W, crossband repeater
  • This should allow me to crossband relay to a repeater via the outside antenna and wander the house with a smaller HT
• BNC adapters for HTs.
  • Everything goes to BNC for easy swapping to external antennas.
• 4 HSY Telescoping VHF/UHF antennas with BNC connectors for HTs
• TinySA
• Sony headphones, wired, as backup for the ones I use now for POTA
• 2 Pi Zero W kits with cases, connectors, and all that
• 375ft of micro cord for throwing antennas into trees

I flashed minor updates to the UV-K5 using Chromium and https://whosmatt.github.io/uvmod/. This got me the following features:

• RSSI meter
• Mic boost
• Better menu strings
• 18mhz-1300mhz for receive
• Backlight on for longer