[chirp_users] Help! Mac v10.14.5

Dan Clemmensen
Sat Apr 6 21:30:19 PDT 2019


Jim, you are absolutely right and I am wrong. I wired it according to the
diagram, but I mis-interpreted the diagram. I would like to claim that the
diagram is confusing, but no, I just did not read it correctly.

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:23 PM Dan Clemmensen <danclemmensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jim, you have far more experience than I do. I am simply observing what I
> see at the Miklor site:
>      http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Technical.php#progcable
> I wired up a cable based on these diagrams and it worked for my Baofeng
> UV-5RA. Basically radio speaker out --> computer serial in,  computer
> serial out --> radio mic in, radio gnd <--> computer gnd,  It just works.
> Maybe there are other hookups  If so, where do they connect at the radio
> end? some place other than speaker out and mic in?
>
> Incidentally, on my Yaesu FT-4, there is a separate signal for data. It is
> on the mic jack's ring, which is not connected in the FT-4's speaker/min
> cable but is connected in its data cable.
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:10 PM Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:10 PM Justin R <armatiage2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Good Evening Everyone;
>> > I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to
>> CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have
>> downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP
>> website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I
>> am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH,
>> BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang
>> website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck,
>> any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and
>> consideration.
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> > Justin
>> >
>>
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> Have you downloaded and installed the KK7DS Python runtime for Mac
>> OSX? See the "MacOS Users" section on the CHIRP download page.
>>
>> https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download
>>
>> If you truly have the BTECH PC03 FTDI programming cable, there should
>> be no drivers to download. The native Apple FTDI driver should be
>> sufficient. See the "FTDI cables" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
>>
>> https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
>>
>> If the above doesn't help, then look at the "Troubleshooting" section
>> of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
>>
>> If you still have issues, then provide information like, the error
>> messages, outputs from "ls /dev/cu*", etc.
>>
>> Jim KC9HI
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