<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks for the information. I checked my driver on the Xp machine and installed the latest daily, That seems too have fixed the non-frequency settings issues.<br><br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:20 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5165929098"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5165929098gmail_extra"><div class="yiv5165929098gmail_quote">Hi Rick,<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Rick Hanzlik <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:n7ngk@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:n7ngk@yahoo.com">n7ngk@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
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Perhaps this has been addressed in another post, if so I would appreciate a reference to it but for now, here is my issues:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1: When I try to use CHIRP with on my 64-bit Vista home machine, I am unable to communicate to the radio, as soon as I turn on the radio, it displays the greeting then immediately goes into transmit mode. I pretty sure it has something to do with the USB ports on the computer because when I try to communicate with another brand of radio (QUANSHENG TG-K4AT) the same thing happens;<br clear="none">
Driver: Prolific Version 3.4.48.272 dated 3/5/2013<br clear="none"><div>Chirp version: 0.3.1</div><div>Baofeng firmware BFB297</div><div>USB cable: purchased from AMAZON along with the radio.<br clear="none"></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none">
</div><div>Wrong driver. My bet is that your programming cable has an unauthorized copy of the Prolific USB-to-Serial chip. This requires you to downgrade to the v3.2.0.0 driver.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php</a><br clear="none">
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<div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">2: I can install the appropriate CHIRP software on my XP based netbook and the same USB cable and I am able to talk to the radio but I still have some issues:</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"><span> a) I am not able to program the non-frequency settings. the chirp software doesn't even show anything under that heading.</span></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"><span><span> b)When I upload my channel program to the radio, it will skip some memory
locations even through i have the csv file set to have consecutive memory channel loaded.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><div>You have to download from the radio first to get a spreadsheet template that is compatible with the radio that you are programming.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Beginners_Guide">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Beginners_Guide</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php">http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php</a><div class="yiv5165929098yqt4689146702" id="yiv5165929098yqtfd22836"><br clear="none">
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<span><span>I have no problem using the netbook as my programing computer since I would normally have it with me anyway, but I would very much like to be able to change the radio non-frequency parameters.</span></span></div>
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<span><span>Thanks for your help</span></span></div><span class="yiv5165929098"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">
<span><span>Rick Hanzlik</span></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"><span><span>N7NGK</span></span></div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="none">I would recommend that you use the latest daily build of CHIRP. You are missing out on a lot of additional features and improvements that have occurred since the April 2013 release of v0.3.1.<br clear="none">
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