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title: Change The Bands In Your Anytone Codeplug
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aliases: /posts/2020-05-17-change-the-bands-in-your-anytone-codeplug
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summary: >
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If you can't change the band edges on your Anytone radio, change the band
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setting in the codeplug.
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categories: [amateur-radio]
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tags: [macos, anytone, dmr]
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date: 2020-05-17T11:38:31+02:00
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lastmod: 2024-09-28T23:48:06+0000
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---
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This is as simple and straight-forward as it could be.
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## Let's do it
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Press and hold down <kbd>PTT</kbd> and <kbd>1</kbd> while turning on your radio to change the
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bands on your Anytone handheld (tested on my D878UV+). To change them, turn
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the channel knob and power the radio off when it shows the desired limits.
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But I've read on social media (Telegram) that some people were not able to
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change their bands -- mostly users of mobile radios. In this conversation
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Arnold, OE1IAH shared his work-around for this.
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He just changed the 17<sup>th</sup> byte in the codeplug file so the bands in
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the codeplug matched the bands used on the radio.
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I use Linux on my computers so I usually have such tools installed already:
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```console
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$ printf '\x03' | dd of=codeplug.rdt bs=1 seek=17 count=1 conv=notrunc
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```
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## Why would you need this?
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You get a codeplug from a friend but you cannot load it into your radio because
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it uses a different band setting and you cannot change that on your radio. So
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you want to change the band setting in the codeplug to match it your radio setting.
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## But, what you still have to consider
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You change from **0** to **3**, that means you can store frequencies within
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**136-174 MHz** and **400-480 MHz** while you use the **0** setting. You then
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change your codeplug to only make use of **144-146 MHz** as well as **430-440 MHz**.
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_You see where this is going?_
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You'd be fine if you only use frequencies within the HAM bands, though.
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## Bands settings
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| Setting | Frequencies | Description |
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| :------ | :-------------------- | :------------------------------------- |
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| **0** | **136-174 / 400-480** | Commercial Europe Mode `000000` |
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| 1 | 136-17d4 / 400-480 | Commercial US Mode `000001` |
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| **3** | **144-146 / 430-440** | Amateur Europe Mode `000003` |
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| 7 | 144-148 / 420-450 | Amateur US Mode `000007` |
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| 8 | 136-174 / 400-470 | Commercial Mode `000008` |
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| 10 | 144-148 / 430-450 | Amateur Australia/Canada Mode `000010` |
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| 13 | 136-174 / 403-470 | Commercial Mode `000013` |
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| 16 | 144-147 / 430-440 | Amateur Thailand Mode `000016` |
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| 17 | 136-174 / 430-440 | Commercial Thailand Mode `000017` |
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