[chirp_users] Programing issues with CHIRP and Baofeng UV-5RA

[Jim Unroe]

Hi Rick,

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Rick Hanzlik <n7ngk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Perhaps this has been addressed in another post, if so I would appreciate
> a reference to it but for now, here is my issues:
>
> 1: When I try to use CHIRP with on my 64-bit Vista home machine, I am
> unable to communicate to the radio, as soon as I turn on the radio, it
> displays the greeting then immediately goes into transmit mode. I pretty
> sure it has something to do with the USB ports on the computer because when
> I try to communicate  with another brand of radio (QUANSHENG TG-K4AT) the
> same thing happens;
>  Driver: Prolific Version 3.4.48.272 dated 3/5/2013
> Chirp version: 0.3.1
> Baofeng firmware BFB297
> USB cable: purchased from AMAZON along with the radio.
>

Wrong driver. My bet is that your programming cable has an unauthorized
copy of the Prolific USB-to-Serial chip. This requires you to downgrade to
the v3.2.0.0 driver.

http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php


>
> 2: I can install the appropriate CHIRP software on my XP based netbook and
> the same USB cable and I am able to talk to the radio but I still have some
> issues:
>     a) I am not able to program the non-frequency settings. the chirp
> software doesn't even show anything under that heading.
>     b)When I upload my channel program to the radio, it will skip some
> memory locations even through i have the csv file set to have consecutive
> memory channel loaded.
>

You have to download from the radio first to get a spreadsheet template
that is compatible with the radio that you are programming.

http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Beginners_Guide
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php

>
> I have no problem using the netbook as my programing computer since I
> would normally have it with me anyway, but I would very much like to be
> able to change the radio non-frequency parameters.
>
> Thanks for your help
> Rick Hanzlik
> N7NGK
> Salt Lake City, UT
>
>
I would recommend that you use the latest daily build of CHIRP. You are
missing out on a lot of additional features and improvements that have
occurred since the April 2013 release of v0.3.1.

Jim KC9HI
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