[chirp_users] Error message

[Shon Edwards]

Thx  Jim!

Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic)
Amateur call:  K6QT
1039 N 2575 W
Layton, UT, 84041-7709
USA
E-mail:  sre.1966 at gmail.com
Home phone:  (801) 444-3445
Cell:  (605) 209-6064

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Shon Edwards <sre.1966 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am getting this error message "Upload finished, but the 'Other Settings'
> > could not be sent because the firmware version of the image (  Ver
> B82S26
> > ) does not match that of the radio (  Ver  B82S28   )."
> >
> > Am trying to upload info to a Baofeng UV-82X and getting this message.
> It's
> > possible my CHIRP version may not be new enough.  Seems to still transfer
> > the frequencies and labels.  Not sure what is NOT being transferred
> because
> > of this.
> >
> > Does anyone know what needs to be done to get rid of the error message?
> Or
> > what is not getting transferred?  Anything to worry about?
> >
> > Thx,
> >
> > Shon
>
> The error message means just what it says. You are uploading a CHIRP
> Radio Image (*.img) file that was saved from another radio with a
> different firmware version into your radio. CHIRP uploads the "main"
> memory that has the per-channel data and most settings but stops short
> of the "aux" memory which is firmware specific. Until recently it was
> considered safe to swap the "main" memory between radios with
> different firmware version but still withing the same model family.
> But in late 2014 Baofeng made memory layout changes to the "main"
> memory so that it is no long safe to exchange the "main" memory among
> different firmware versions. If you were using the latest CHIRP daily
> build, it would have refused to upload the image because the firmware
> version of the data file does not exactly match the firmware version
> of the radio.
>
> To get this error to stop, all you do is download the channels and
> settings from your radio to create a tab that is compatible with your
> radio. Then you can load the "foreign" image into another tab allowing
> you to copy-and-paste the channels from the tab from B82S26 radio to
> the tab for your B82S28 radio. Another method, which I prefer, is once
> you've download from your radio into a tab, then you use the CHIRP
> File -> Import method to import the B82S286 image's channels into the
> tab from your radio.
>
> Jim KC9HI
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