[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-5R+Upload Error

[Jim Unroe]

Doug,

Yep. Thanks for being so detailed with your initial post. It made it easy
to diagnose the issue.

The way I see it, the folks at Baofeng, with the last few releases, has
been putting the firmware version in the wrong line of the 3+Power-on
message.

The format used to be like this
"  Ver  " "BFB297 "

Then when BFB299 came out they looked like this
"BFB299 " "BFB297 "
The "  Ver  " was overwritten and the previous "BFB297 " survived. To me
this appears to be an accidental mistake on Baofeng's part. CHIRP was
updated to deal with this change a few days before v0.3.0 stable was
released.

And now you have
"BFB301 " "BFB297 "

Would you do me a favor? First, save your settings to a file so that they
can be restored. Then perform a menu 40 reset on your UV-5R. After the
reset, download from your UV-5R and save the data to an .img file with a
different name than what you used before (ResetFileFromDougForJim.img or
similar) and email it to me ( uv5r at kc9hi.net ). Then you can restore you
settings using the file that you save earlier.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

Jim

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Doug Gilbert <dougandsharon at tampabay.rr.com
> wrote:

> Jim,****
>
> That did it – With that CHIRP 0.3.0 version, I am able to Upload/Download
>  my UV-5R+ channels.****
>
> The other link I used was the one contained on
> http://miklor-uv5r.99k.org/UV5R-CHIRP.html and was the one recommended.
> Someone might want to correct that link for other UV-5R+ owners.  It will
> save them mucho trouble and discouragement.****
>
> ** **
>
> After looking at both VIP and CHIRP, I’d rather use CHIRP – it’s much more
> complete and seems to work better.****
>
> Thanks for the assist… 73’s****
>
> Doug****
>
> ** **
>
>
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