[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-5R+Upload Error

[Doug & Sharon]

I'm a newbie at this... Just got the 5r+ and just passed my Technician's Exam, so let's make sure what you'd like me to do.  
1. Using Chirp I'll do a Save of my current channel/freq assignments to an .img file.
2. Do the 5R+ Menu 40 Reset.  All assignments will be erased.
3. Using Chirp, I'll do a Save of the empty channel/freqs to a new .img file.
4. Email you the Step 3 .img file.
5. Restore the Step 1 .img file to the 5R+

Question: If the Step 3 file has empty channel/freqs, will this help you??  Thanks.

Sent by Doug and Sharon

On Feb 20, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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