<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I bought some BTech MURS-V1 radios for my unlicensed family members and two of them have the same issue. I had to apply continuous side pressure on the programming cable connector where it enters the radio to get a successful read from CHIRP. The second replacement radio from BTech still seems a bit iffy in this regards. Need to wiggle it side-to-side after insertion to get a clean connection. So definitely a hardware issue with the Kenwood connector. These radios are Baofeng UV-82 clones with locked down firmware.<br><br>(Peter)<br><br><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:r-chirp@rich0.org">Rich Freeman</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11/9/2018 12:42 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[chirp_users] Communication Issues with new UV-5R EX</span><br><br></div>I just purchased a UV-5R EX off of Amazon and am having trouble<br>getting it to communicate with CHIRP. The same hardware/software<br>config works just fine with my BF-F8HP. I get the problem whether I<br>select Raddiodity/UV-5R EX or Baofeng/UV-5R. This is on linux, and I<br>have the problem with the latest Mercurial commit as well as 20180906<br>and 20181018. I've also reproduced the problem on Windows, which also<br>communicates just fine with the BF-F8HP just fine. I just unplug the<br>one radio from the mic connection and plug in the other and it<br>starts/stops working, so I'm pretty certain it isn't a<br>driver/permissions/etc issue. This is with an FTDI-based USB cable.<br><br>The radio reports its firmware version (when holding down 3) as<br>BFS001. I couldn't tell you whether this is correct as it isn't<br>communicating with CHIRP so I'm not getting more than that.<br><br>I also tried fiddling with the baud settings on the serial device in<br>linux and it didn't make any difference.<br><br>Has anybody run into issues with newer radios? Is it possible there<br>was a firmware change not handled by the software?<br><br>I'm happy to debug or test patches/etc if helpful. The radio is just<br>in factory config so I don't really care about losing any settings as<br>long as it isn't bricked.<br><br>--<br>Rich<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com<br>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users<br>This message was sent to (Peter) at ptlambert@sbcglobal.net<br>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com<br></body></html>