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Hello everyone.

I've googled and googled to try to find clarity on the title and it seems to be very unclear to me how to interpret the programming software for a lot of radios. Perhaps someone can clear things up for me.

So I understand the 5K deviation and the 12.5K channel spacing. But what I don't understand is what is the Narrow and FM option with Chirp software? Is the NFM really 5K deviation and 12.5K Channel spacing? I see the same config option with my UV-5R software (such Narrow/Wide) but what is their definition of wide or Narrow?

And then, I bought this Anytone radio, and the software doesn't even say Narrow or wideband. All it gives me is channel step and channel spacing. I'm assuming that if I set it to 12.5K channel spacing that it will set the deviate to 5K? Or am I assuming incorrectly?

It just seems that the manufactures / Software are inconsistent in nomenclature....or maybe its just me

If anyone can help on clarifying, it would be much appreciated.

-A

<blockquote data-quote="archjeb" data-source="post: 461804" data-attributes="member: 39979">Hello everyone.I&#039;ve googled and googled to try to find clarity on the title and it seems to be very unclear to me how to interpret the programming software for a lot of radios. Perhaps someone can clear things up for me.So I understand the 5K deviation and the 12.5K channel spacing. But what I don&#039;t understand is what is the Narrow and FM option with Chirp software? Is the NFM really 5K deviation and 12.5K Channel spacing? I see the same config option with my UV-5R software (such Narrow/Wide) but what is their definition of wide or Narrow?And then, I bought this Anytone radio, and the software doesn&#039;t even say Narrow or wideband. All it gives me is channel step and channel spacing. I&#039;m assuming that if I set it to 12.5K channel spacing that it will set the deviate to 5K? Or am I assuming incorrectly?It just seems that the manufactures / Software are inconsistent in nomenclature....or maybe its just me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ohmy:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :ohmy:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":ohmy:" />If anyone can help on clarifying, it would be much appreciated.-A</blockquote>

[QUOTE="archjeb, post: 461804, member: 39979"] Hello everyone. I've googled and googled to try to find clarity on the title and it seems to be very unclear to me how to interpret the programming software for a lot of radios. Perhaps someone can clear things up for me. So I understand the 5K deviation and the 12.5K channel spacing. But what I don't understand is what is the Narrow and FM option with Chirp software? Is the NFM really 5K deviation and 12.5K Channel spacing? I see the same config option with my UV-5R software (such Narrow/Wide) but what is their definition of wide or Narrow? And then, I bought this Anytone radio, and the software doesn't even say Narrow or wideband. All it gives me is channel step and channel spacing. I'm assuming that if I set it to 12.5K channel spacing that it will set the deviate to 5K? Or am I assuming incorrectly? It just seems that the manufactures / Software are inconsistent in nomenclature....or maybe its just me :ohmy: If anyone can help on clarifying, it would be much appreciated. -A [/QUOTE]

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