[chirp_users] Baofeng UV-6 -- Radio refused clone

[Jim Unroe]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Chuck Mills <chuck.mills at rocketmail.com>wrote:

> Had a bit of trouble myself. Tried the factory software and all it does is
> flash my screen until I kill the program. I agree with the CHIRP option. It
> took me a couple tries but I finally got it. Here are the links to three
> youtube videos. I went through these and found that the driver was not
> installed properly. Fixed that and now can upload and download all the way
> to excel then back up to radio. Works really well.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpGoThEtCE
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-opjn22kbQ
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7rMM7jGxc
>
>
Chuck,

The flashing is Baofeng's way of detecting the serial. So plug your USB
programming cable in to establish a virtual serial port before you launch
the program.

If you wait long enough, the OEM program will eventually give up, so there
is not need to "kill" it.

Jim KC9HI
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