[chirp_devel] help needed

[Tom Masterson]

It is a radio from Rugged Radios that is made by Baofeng.  I was told 
(note was told) by the techs that we can program it with chirp as a uv-6. 
I am not sure I believe them anymore.

I get the same message when running as root but I suspect that you Jim may 
be on the right track as the first message in the log that is of any 
importance is that matters is "radio refused clone".

I note that when reading the log it also shows UV-4R even though I have 
picked UV-6 not sure if this is a bug or not but definitely a bit 
confusing.

Tom

On Tue, 10 May 2016, Jim Unroe wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I assume you are actually talking about a UV-6 and not a UV-B6 or
> UV-6R. They are all 3 quite different radios.
>
>> problem.  However if I hook up a Baofeng UV-6 and ask chirp to do a
>> download via ttyUSB0 under Ubuntu 14.04 I get "Radio did not respond"
>> error.  Nothing else shows in the log even if I use debug level and
>> verbose settings.
>
> Nearly 4 years ago, Baofeng made a significant change to the UV-5R
> withe the release of BFB291 firmware and at the same time changed the
> "magic" string that initiates the cloning process. CHIRP was written
> to send the original "magic", then if there was no response from a
> pre-BFB291 radio, then the "magic" for the newer radio would be sent.
> Finally if there was no response from a new radio either, then the
> cloning process would end with "no response from the radio.
>
> This worked for a long time. The only change that has been made is to
> now sent the new "magic" first since it is the more likely of the 2
> radios.
>
> The UV-6 is another radio that has 2 "magic" strings depending on the
> age of the radio. Unfortunately, Baofeng made some other slight
> changes to the handshaking done as part of process to initiate the
> clone process, of it it doesn't recognize the 1st magic, it ignores
> the 2nd magic that is sent to it (even if it is the correct magic.
>
> I don't know if putting the new "magic" first in this case would cure
> the problem without breaking the cloning process for the "original"
> UV-6 or not.
>
> Jim KC9HI
>