[chirp_users] Chirp vs. Win8.1

[John LaMartina]

Refer to this link that may help
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php

There is a setting unique to Win8

John K3NXU
http://www.miklor.com

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> On May 29, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Benton <benton at siletzbay.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I was trying to help a friend work through some problems with Chirp on 
> Win8.1 the other night.  (We were actually swapping info back and forth 
> at the bottom of a shared g-doc we were using for logging net check-ins, 
> so not the best medium to convey meanings.)
> 
> She indicated she'd used Chirp in the past but that it was broken after 
> the switch.  My first thought was that the 2.3.0.0 (counterfit-tolerant) 
> driver wouldn't work under 8.1 but a found a short thread in the Chirp 
> archives that suggested it does work and that shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> Also, she said the Baofeng SW that came with the radio/cable does work, 
> so presumably that installed a driver that works with the cheap cables.
> 
> I asked her if she'd trying running Chrip *after* getting the Baofeng 
> utility working, but that's where we ran out of time.
> 
> I'll pursue it further with her, but thought I'd ask here in the interim 
> for any gotcha's that might crop up with Chirp and Win8.1.
> 
> 
> Benton 29may14
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