[chirp_users] Got Two More Friends Up and Running with CHIRP

[Pat Anderson]

My friends just got new Baofeng UV-5Rs. Steve is a Windows 10 guy and Don
is a MacBook Pro guy running Mojave. They both managed to get the program
installed on their respective computers and get their radios programmed.
Steve bought the FTDI cable from Baofeng Tech and Windows 10 automatically
installed the drivers when he plugged the cable in. No more trying to fool
Windows into thinking an out-of-date driver is OK, because the genuine
cable was barely more expensive than the counterfeit cables! I spent about
an hour with them running over CHIRP basics, especially that you HAVE to
download an image from the radio you want to program, edit it, save it, and
then upload it back to the same radio from which it was downloaded. Don got
his Mac going after I left, so I don't know if he in fact downloaded the
Mac driver from mac-usb-serial.com I suggested or if Mojave likewise
automatically installed drivers, as he had the authentic FTDI cable as
well. I have a counterfeit Prolific, which works great on my Chromebook
with Ubuntu, but I needed the purchased driver to get a serial port on my
ancient MacBook Pro with High Sierra (it is too old and lame to run Mohave,
so it limps along with High Sierra and a lot of spinning beach balls!).
Anyway, two more fans in the CHIRP world!
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