[chirp_users] Cable

Nate Perkins
Tue May 20 23:10:31 PDT 2014


I would suggest just tossing the idea of using whatever driver you got on the supplied CD. I ordered a cable and disc set off of Amazon, threw the disc out, downloaded everything off of CHIRP, plugged in my cable, and it went flawless. Not one hitch. This was a Baofeng UV-82. CHIRP rocks!


Nate, KL3NP
Nome, Alaska

On May 20, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Richard Mogford wrote:

> I am new to this list and probably am making mistakes that are already well
> known!
> 
> I bought a cheap cable running the 2303 chip, which I found later is not so
> good.
> 
> The drivers on the supplied CD seem to work OK, but when I go to use CHIRP,
> I get an "Error Occurred" message saying "could not open port COM3: [Error
> 2] The system cannot find the file specified."
> 
> Is there anything I can try here, or should I just shop for a better cable?
> 
> Richard
> 
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