[chirp_users] Chirp program

[George Piek]

Hi, yes you are correct on the actual msg. No I have made double sure in
selecting the correct radio i.e. UV 5 R. As I said, cannot understand why
because I had downloaded from same radio previously.

Regards
George

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 14:14 Jim Unroe, <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 4:10 AM George Piek <georgepiek7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good day to you, I am using Chirp for programming my UV 5 R Baofeng
> Radio. Suddenly when I request to "Download from Radio" I receive the
> message " Not enough data" Why would that be please. I have used it before
> and had no problems.
> >
> > Regards
> > George
>
> Hi George,
>
> >From the information you have provided, I am going to guess that you
> may be selecting the wrong model. Here's why.
>
> There is no CHIRP driver for any radio model that provides a " Not
> enough data" message to the user. The word "enough" doesn't even show
> up in any message for any radio driver module. So looking through all
> of the Baofeng radio driver modules for messages that contain both
> "not" and "data" I find "baofeng_common.py". It contains the following
> message: "Error reading data from radio: not the amount of data we
> want." Assuming this message is the actual message that you are
> seeing, this allows me to get a list of all radio driver modules that
> use "baofeng_common.py". They are as follows.
>
> baofeng_wp970i.py
> gmrsuv1.py
> mursv1.py
> uv6r.py
> uv5x3.py
>
> >From the above list only "baofeng_wp970i.py" and "uv6r.py" use the
> Vendor: Baofeng selection. Assuming that "UV 5 R" means "UV-5R", if I
> hook up a UV-5R and choose Vendor: Baofeng and Model: UV-6R, I get the
> "Error reading data from radio: not the amount of data we want."
> message (screen capture attached).
>
> Since the "UV-5R" and "UV-6R" selections are visually similar, I think
> you may accidentally be choosing "UV-6R" instead of choosing "UV-5R".
>
> Jim KC9HI
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