[chirp_users] IcomT70 and chirp

[bcarling at cfl.rr.com]

Thank you Paul. I am going to contact the eBay guy who sold it to me!

He made a BIG DEAL about jhow his (more expensive) cable was the RIGHT one 
for my radio since it has the FTDI chip.

I will let you know what happens!


On 24 Jan 2015 at 8:01, W Paul Mills wrote:

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> On 01/24/2015 01:43 AM, tom.wz9u at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Chirp can't read from the radio. All it does is put the radio
> >> into
> > scan mode.
> > 
> > I had a similar problem with my Baofeng UV-82.  The solution (for
> > me) was to install the drivers that came with my cable -- although
> > I certain that the Miklor <http://miklor.com/> drivers recommended
> > on this list will work as well (or better).
> > 
> > Then you need to convince Windows to roll back the drivers (at
> > least on my system it would instantly upgrade the driver as soon as
> > I plugged in the cable).  With the proper drivers, and Windows
> > "help" disabled, all should be well.
> > 
> > Did you burn yourself on the live antenna connector?  I got a
> > singe, and that was my clue that something was amiss.
> > 
> > Tom WZ9U
> 
> This does not apply to FTDI cables. But I would wonder if the cable is
> wired correctly for the radio in question.
> 
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