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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I am new to Hand Held HAM
radio and have a ton of trouble getting the radio to connect with
the computer. Radio is BF-F8HP<br>
Operating system is Mac 10.8.5<br>
I have installed everything Instructed to from the Chirp site.<br>
including the osx-pl2303 installer and the python runtime files<br>
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I start Chirp<br>
plug in the cable, and then the radio, and finally turn on the
radio<br>
I then select Radio > Download from radio<br>
select Port (and there are several to select from:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New
Roman, Times, serif">1. /dev/cu.Bluetooth-modem</font></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2.
/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Serial-1<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">3.
/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Serial-2<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">4.
/dev/cu.Bluetooth-(myname)-Wireless-iAP<br>
5. </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">/dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync</font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
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All of which result in <br>
1. Chirp starts processing a gives error 16 Resource busy could
not open port /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem<br>
2. for serial-1 it appears to start cloning and then reports:
radio did not respond<br>
3. for serial-2 it appears to start cloning and then reports:
radio did not respond<br>
4. for Bluetooth (myname) Wireless-iAP it appears to start cloning
and then reports: radio did not respond<br>
5. could not open port /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync: [Errno 16]
Resource busy: '/dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync'<br>
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Could anyone help me here,<br>
thanks,<br>
Tom<br>
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