<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Aubrey Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Ident:<br>
000: aa 01 01 36 01 74 01 04 ...6.t..<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It looks like either the memory layout has change or your radio needs reset. This is what the "Ident" should look like.<br><br>AA 36 74 04 00 05 20 DD<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It is a record of the factory band limits and is the same format for all UV-5R variants since the BFB291 firmware was released.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">36 = VHF lower limit of 136 MHz<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">74 = VHF upper limit of 174 MHz<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">04 00 = UHF lower limit of 400 MHz<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">05 20 = VHF upper limit of 520 MHz<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
And yours looks to me like<br><br>aa 01 01 36 01 74 01 04<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">01 = separator<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">01 36 = VHF lower limit<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">01 = separator<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">01 74 = VHF upper limit<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">01 = separator<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">just guessing beyond this point<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">04 00 = UHF lower limit<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">01 = separator<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">05 20 = UHF upper limit<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If I am correct, this first part of memory has been expanded and all of the memory mapping afterwords is offset. So even if you got past this "Radio refused clone" error, the settings would be all wrong.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Are you able to get this radio to work with the Baofeng software?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jim KC9HI<br></div></div>