[chirp_users] Help please!
Bry Carling AF4K
Tue Mar 31 03:08:49 PDT 2015
Thank you!
The supplier assures me these are not the fake chips but genuine FTDI chips he is using,
and charged a premium price for it.
The cable came from Mark Dunkle, KJ6ZWL
Manufacturer: FTDI
on USB Serial Converter
Driver Provided: FTDI
8/26/2014
Driver Version:
2.12.0.0
On 30 Mar 2015 at 23:22, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>
> Bry,
> What type cable are you using? Can you go to Device Manager and give us the driver type and
> version number. There is a problem with fake chips made in China not working right.
> David
> On Mar 30, 2015 8:34 PM, "Bry Carling AF4K" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Nothing happens.
>
> Sometimes it will do nothing. Other times it says an error has occurred, cannot open th
> eport
> (COM3) Error 2
>
>
>
> On 30 Mar 2015 at 17:54, Denis Dimick wrote:
>
> >
> > Bry,
> > What happens when you try to download from the radio?
> > |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | Sent from my Black and Decker Toaster Oven
> > |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > On Mar 30, 2015 5:17 PM, "Bry Carling AF4K" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > I am trying again to get the CHIRP program to work with my Icom T70 and it Is NOT
> > obvious.
> >
> > I have a nice FTDI from Mark Dunkle. KJ6ZWL. I have spoken with Mark and we ar
> enboth
> > mystified as to why this doesn't work.
> >
> > I got as far as to make it stop SCANNING all the time when I plug the cable in. I follow
> the
> > key presses to get the radio into CLONING mode. I set it to "CL out." Then I try to
> "read" the
> > radio into Chirp.
> >
> > The only thing I can see to do in CHIRP is to click on "RADIO" and then "DOWNLOAD
> > FROM RADIO."
> >
> > Is there something else I should be doing? I jhave been trying this since January and
> just
> > haven't had time to fool with it soince it is such a bad time-wasting failure.
> >
> > I wish people would either supply instructiuons with Chirp or make it so that ist is a bit
> more
> > obvious and user friendly!
> >
> > I will now try downloading the latest version and see if that helps. I am on version 0.4.1
> >
> > Bry Carling, AF4K
> >
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