<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29857"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">I also found that to be true. My old cable worked well. The main problem <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29887" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">I had was that the Chirp download didn't work on my radio. I downloaded <br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">the version direct from Baofeng and that one worked just as it should. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30110" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">My radio versions are BFB297, and BFS297. I don't really find much of <br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">any difference, but there must be enough so that one works with my <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30111" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">'NewOld' program download, and the other only works with the one I <br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_29858">downloaded from Baofeng. </span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30114" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30113" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30112" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30115" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Galen Thurber <galenthurber@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 24, 2015 1:59 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] New Baofeng UV-5R w/cable. Chirp reports failed connection w/radio as could not communicate w/radio.<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30116" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv9266432940"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30120"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30119" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30118"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30117"><div>I use linux and had this problem but I have found that it was the cable.<br clear="none"></div>apply some pressure to the top of jack and push it towards the the back of the radio.<br clear="none"></div>I found over time that the cable was so cheap that it needed to be replaced.<br clear="none"></div>I bought new cables off of eBay that have the Baofeng sticker on them, they work great, no push needed<br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30123" class="yiv9266432940gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv9266432940yqt5813736259" id="yiv9266432940yqt05009"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30122" class="yiv9266432940gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Jim Unroe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429898549859_30121" class="yiv9266432940gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:39 PM, DJ <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:djnrf@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:djnrf@yahoo.com">djnrf@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
> I received this new radio today. I tried to use my old (August last year<br clear="none">
> NewOld version) and had the same 'could not connect with radio'. It<br clear="none">
> did nothing, but the new Daily download version not only does the same,<br clear="none">
> but it also keys up the transmitter when attempting to clone, and still<br clear="none">
> fails.<br clear="none">
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Probably the device driver, not the software.<br clear="none">
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