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

[Rick Hanzlik]

Thanks for the information. I checked my driver on the Xp machine and installed the latest daily, That seems too have fixed the non-frequency settings issues.






On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:20 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
 
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
 


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>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


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>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.
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>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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