[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-5R+Upload Error

[Jim Unroe]

Doug,
Those steps look perfect. Yes. Empty is what I want. This will let me
determine what the default values are for your firmware version. I will
compare them to earlier firmware versions to see if any have been changed.

Once again, thanks in advance.
Jim

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Doug & Sharon <
dougandsharon at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> 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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