[chirp_devel] UV3R Plus problem

[Jim Unroe]

What Marco describes is very common with the UV-5R series of radios and the
2-pin Kenwood "style" programming cable. Sometimes the shell of the plug
needs to be trimmed to allow the plug to fully seat in the socket.
Sometimes it requires some wiggling of the plug and a firm push to get the
plug fully seated. I've never been in possession of a UV-3R, and don't
follow any UV-3R groups, so I don't know if the UV-3R even has this issue.
I assume that both of your UV-3R radios use the 2-pin plug. Or are they
both the single pin version?

Another possibility is that Baofeng (or should I say Pofung) changed the
"string" (aka "ident") that triggers the cloning process. They did this for
the UV-5R about a year ago when they introduced the BFB291 firmware. This
same thing just happened recently with the UV-6.

Unfortunately, if this is what happened, CHIRP can't be updated until the
new "ident" is known. This is don't by "sniffing" the serial communications
between the OEM software and the radio during a download. So until/unless
you can find OEM software that works with the radio, there is nothing
CHIRPwise that can be done.

Jim KC9HI

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:26 AM, jon <jon at jonshouse.co.uk> wrote:

> This may well be a faulty radio, but I will ask here just in case I am
> missing something subtle.
>
> I own a UV3R Plus, works fine, programs ok with CHIRP - I will call this
> my "original" radio.
>
> I have just purchased from EBAY a shiny new UV3R as a second radio.
>
> I can plug the original radio into the laptop and program it with no
> problems, if I then unplug the cable and plug it into the new radio it
> fails to work (No ACK). I have tried re-starting CHIRP, I even tried the
> manufacturer software, nothing seems to make it work.
>
> Do I need to do something to prepare the new radio or is it just
> faulty ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>
>
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