[chirp_users] Unable to read UV-2501

[Brent Wells]

John, good luck sir. When you do get it going (which I know ya will) I'd love to know how it sounds. I really enjoy mine with them being dual band. 73 my friend.

Brent (N4BDW)
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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 3:14 PM, john bryant <parrotdise13 at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes Jim, and Brent, I've already gone through the yellow flag thing. 
> Loaded the older Prolific drvr to work with my obvious knock-off cable.  
> I may eventually resort to ordering an FTDI cable, not ruling that out. 
> But right now, I have hard time believing the cable is the problem as 
> long as I have a driver that works with it.
> 
> I'm thinking the manufacturer has changed the radio firmware slightly as 
> they are prone to do, and once again Chirp will have to be tweaked to 
> match the "magic string".  But they will have to wait for others to 
> provide log data since I can't even get my radio to work with the 
> manufacturer's programming software.
> 
> I was hoping some of the Chirp developers monitor this forum and will 
> chime in with suggestions.
> 
> 
>> On 8/26/2016 1:26 PM, Brent Wells wrote:
>> Yessir! I always know to watch for that yellow icon, changing this for my Baofeng ht's isn't a problem a bit. But doing it for my Uv5001 is a task! But that's what I was instructing John to look for.
>> 
>> Brent (N4BDW)
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Aug 26, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> (yellow icon showing up in my Coms/Ports area).
>>> You do not want a "yellow icon' showing. This is an indication of a
>>> problem with the driver/programming cable.
>>> 
>>> Jim KC9HI
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