[chirp_devel] Baofeng UV-5R Variants and CHIRP v0.4.1

Jim Unroe
Tue Dec 30 14:16:37 PST 2014


Almost daily someone has to be instructed how to recover their radio
after they uploaded a CHIRP image saved from a radio with BFB/BFS
firmware into a new radio with N5R firmware. I have been pulling my
hair out trying to figure out how they are doing this. The daily
builds blocks an image that is incompatible with the radio to be
uploaded.

I just confirmed that uploaded a BFS311 image into an N5R-20 radio
that the single backport patch to CHIRP v0.4.1 isn't enough to keep
CHIRP from uploading incompatible images.

I keep telling everyone to not use the CHIRP stable version for all
Baofeng/Pofung radios (except for the UV-B5/UV-B6) but most don't find
out until it is too late. And there are some that don't want to run
anything but a stable release.

The October date on the stable build is misleading. It contains
nothing since the April v0.4.0 build except the backported patch that
apparently isn't dong the job.

I'm thinking that there either needs to be more patches backported to
the stable build (not recommended by me) or roll out a v0.4.2 that is
current with the latest daily build. If not either of these two
things, then maybe a strong warning on the downloads page not to use
the v0.4.1 stable build for Baofeng/Pofung radios.

Any other ideas?

Jim KC9HI



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