[chirp_users] Unable to read UV-2501

[Brent Wells]

Ok bear with me. I work for one of the Highway Offices here in KY and I'm on the road today....

I ordered one of the recommended cables, suggested either by Miklor or the BaofengTech website. Can't remember. (Just confirmed, was Miklor). For mine he recommended a FTDI cable. After my laptop is turned on and everything...I plug the cable into my laptop and let the drivers (in the cable) load. Gave me an error that didn't load properly. I then had to go to this site (http://www.ftdichip.com) and download a different set of drivers....load those, restart my laptop and make sure the correct ones were being used in my Device Manager (yellow icon showing up in my Coms/Ports area). Then after all that....it was THEN that I plug it into my actual radio. NOT easy.

Brent (N4BDW)
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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 1:25 PM, John Bryant <parrotdise13 at att.net> wrote:
> 
> OK. Could you elaborate a bit on that timing/sequence of cable connecting?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
>> On 8/26/2016 12:16 PM, Brent Wells wrote:
>> John, I have the UV-5001 and I love it. BUT....it's tricky to program, I think. I just had to re-program it the other day to add/remove some channels...took me 45 minutes. I had to download a driver off the FTDI site like the recommended cable directions said, but it's funny the timing of when I have to plug the cable into my laptop, and then plug into my radio.
>> 
>> Brent (N4BDW)
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 26, 2016, at 11:41 AM, john bryant <parrotdise13 at att.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just got a new Btech UV-2501 and unable to read from radio. Error
>>> message "radio did not enter clone mode". Then the radio restarts?
>>> Anticipating a request for logging files,  I downloaded the
>>> manufacturer's programming software and installed. Whenever I try to
>>> read from radio, the radio repeatedly cycles on and off until I shut
>>> down the software.
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> Thanks,
>>> John, N5SU
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