<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Thanks, Jim, for the suggestions.<div><br></div><div>The version of CHIRP I've been using is "chirp-daily-20140601-installer.exe".</div><div><br></div><div>This is on a Dell XPS L502X with Windows 7 Home Premium edition (with Service Pack 1), 64-bit. My USB ports are USB 3.0, but I've never had a problem with their being 3.0 instead of 2.0, except for a puzzling USB 3.0 flash drive I once tried, but as far as I know that problem could have been "anything"; I did not have time then to try to diagnose the problem; so I returned the flash drive back to the store for a refund.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In response to your suggestion, I tried the UV-B5's RESET as described in the manual, namely, turning on the radio while pressing and holding the [FM] button. But the radio did not seem to do any resetting. I surmise from the manual that I was supposed to get an option displayed of "VFO" (for frequency reset) and "ALL" (for resetting everything resettable). But I got nothing like that. And my channels were all still programmed as I had programmed them. (But before I did any of this I transferred the channel-programming data back to the UV-B5 from the OEM channel-programming software just to be sure I could do that without any problem.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>But in case there was some sort of subtle reset when I tried the RESET procedure, which conceivably might have resolved the original problem, I afterwards tried reading the UV-B5's channel info via CHIRP. But I still got the usual error message and no apparent transfer of data.</div>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Jim Unroe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Richard Haney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfhaney@gmail.com" target="_blank">rfhaney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>So Hooray! All is not lost! At least it seems I have not irreparably damaged the radio as I had feared.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's good news. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>But it does seem that a bug fix of CHIRP regarding the problem is in order. However, I have not checked whether this problem is already regarded as a bug that needs fixing.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which version of CHIRP are you using? v0.4.0 or any recent daily build should be fine.<br><br>Now that you have the channels and settings saved using the Baofeng software, I would give the RESET a try. The UV-B5/B6 has a weird habit of changing it's cloning behavior based on the radio's settings (changing ACK values and IDENT strings were a real pain during the early development of the initial support).<br>
<br></div></div>Jim KC9HI<br></div></div>
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