Doug,<br><br>Yep. Thanks for being so detailed with your initial post. It made it easy to diagnose the issue.<br><br>The way I see it, the folks at Baofeng, with the last few releases, has been putting the firmware version in the wrong line of the 3+Power-on message.<br>
<br>The format used to be like this<br>" Ver " "BFB297 " <br><br>Then when BFB299 came out they looked like this<br>"BFB299 " "BFB297 "<br>The " Ver " was overwritten and the previous "BFB297 " survived. To me this appears to be an accidental mistake on Baofeng's part. CHIRP was updated to deal with this change a few days before v0.3.0 stable was released.<br>
<br>And now you have<br>"BFB301 " "BFB297 "<br><br>Would you do me a favor? First, save your settings to a file so that they can be restored. Then perform a menu 40 reset on your UV-5R. After the reset, download from your UV-5R and save the data to an .img file with a different name than what you used before (ResetFileFromDougForJim.img or similar) and email it to me ( <a href="mailto:uv5r@kc9hi.net">uv5r@kc9hi.net</a> ). Then you can restore you settings using the file that you save earlier.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Jim<br><br>Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Doug Gilbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dougandsharon@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank">dougandsharon@tampabay.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Jim,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That did it – With that CHIRP 0.3.0 version, I am able to Upload/Download my UV-5R+ channels.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The other link I used was the one contained on <a href="http://miklor-uv5r.99k.org/UV5R-CHIRP.html" target="_blank">http://miklor-uv5r.99k.org/UV5R-CHIRP.html</a> and was the one recommended. Someone might want to correct that link for other UV-5R+ owners. It will save them mucho trouble and discouragement.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">After looking at both VIP and CHIRP, I’d rather use CHIRP – it’s much more complete and seems to work better.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks for the assist… 73’s<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Doug<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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