<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Many thanks, Jim, for clarifying the fact that the RESET directions in the Baofeng manual are incorrect. My usual presumption is that the manufacturer knows best, and so I consulted the manual. But when the procedure did not work with the [FM] button as described in the manual, I had the nagging feeling that I saw some similar directions somewhere involving the [MENU] button. But I was not sure whether that was in reference to some other piece of equipment or for doing some other type of operation, and I recall having the impression that that was something I should be careful about, and, based on experience, I figured it was a good idea to be cautious and to not go pressing buttons in "button-happy" fashion without more-definite knowledge on the matter.<div>
<br></div><div>Anyway, I realized that I had a miklor.com-alleged <a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">"no-issues" Windows-XP-specific driver</a> installed on my Dell D800 laptop running Windows XP. So I tried using CHIRP on the D800 and it seemed to work fine, without any error messages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I installed the driver that <a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">miklor.com suggested</a> for Win 7 on my Dell XPS. And then CHIRP worked fine on my Dell XPS (with Win 7) as well. So the problem is resolved. Hooray!</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it appears at least few items of info need to be corrected and/or clarified on the <a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">miklor.com</a> web site in this connection.</div><div><br></div>
<div>One is that the lack of a yellow triangle with exclamation mark next the device indication in the device manager does not mean that a good cable driver is installed for the device, contrary to a statement in the <a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">miklor.com directions</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another is the <a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_ErrorMess.php">strong suggestion</a> that the error message "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Radio did not </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">ack</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> programming mode" is likely to be a hardware problem (provided the plug is plugged in to the radio and the radio is turned on). A natural presumption seemed to be that, due to </span><a href="http://miklor.com">miklor.com</a> hardware suggestions and due <font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">to the erratic/haphazard then finally permanent nature of the problem, the problem was an intermittent hardware problem and not a driver issue. But it tuns out, surprisingly, especially regarding the intermittency, that that presumption is not a good one.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">And a <a href="http://www.miklor.com/UVB5/UVB5-ProgMem.php">third item in need of correction</a> (or at least clarification) is the (erroneous) suggestion that the SHIFT direction can be modified in channel mode.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">I'll plan to contact the </font><a href="http://miklor.com">miklor.com</a> people about those items.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:01 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 Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Richard Haney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfhaney@gmail.com" target="_blank">rfhaney@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><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></div></div></blockquote><div>You've not done a RESET then. The manual's procedure is incorrect. That's why I explained how to do it in my first reply (power-on while pressing the [MENU] button, select ALL with the "arrow" keys, then press [ENTER]).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim KC9HI </div></div></div></div>
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