<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have programed well over a hundred UV-5x radios and have had both easy and hard times programing them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One thing that I learned is to slow down, waiting about 10 seconds between actions taken on the computer. This solve most of the error problems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If that does not work, most of the rest to the time ,it is solved by pushing the programing cable into the radio and keep pressure on the cable until the pride is programed. I have to push it VERY hard.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On a windows machines you have to select the right com port (I am mostly a mac person so I find the right port by trial and error).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As an aside, using more that 60 cables to program the radios, I have only found one cable that was defective, so that is most likely, not the problem. <br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 24, 2020, at 5:43 PM, Charles Gierke <<a href="mailto:cgierke@cox.net" class="">cgierke@cox.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, no luck.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Chuck<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On August 23, 2020 at 4:26 PM Silverfox <<a href="mailto:alan.r.hill@gmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">alan.r.hill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I forgot that you are on Windows.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The windows OS is very poor supporting USB.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>You might try going into the device manager and tell it to show hidden devices.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Once that is done, look at the USB entries and delete all of them that are diminished icons.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>That is, they are lighter than the other icons.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Good luck.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Alan</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></p><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Charles Gierke<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, August 23, 2020 3:05 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Discussion of CHIRP; John LaMartina<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [chirp_users] Chirp and BaoFeng UV 5R not communicating</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="">hi, still no luck.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">I went to the web site and put a death-grip on the plug and held it in as far as it would go. I trimmed a hair of the edges of the plug to let it seat on the bottom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">thanks for the suggestions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><!--[endif] --=""--><br class=""><!--[endif]--></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="">On August 22, 2020 at 5:55 PM John LaMartina <<a href="mailto:JohnLa@usa.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">JohnLa@usa.net</a>> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="">This may assist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_ErrorMess.php" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Www.Miklor.com/COM/UV_ErrorMess.php</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class=""> </span></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="">John<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.miklor.com/UV5R" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Www.Miklor.com/UV5R</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class=""> </span></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""><br class=""><!--[endif] --=""--><br class=""><!--[endif]--></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="">On Aug 22, 2020, at 6:45 PM, Charles Gierke <<a href="mailto:cgierke@cox.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">cgierke@cox.net</a>> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></div><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""></span><span class=""></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Wednesday my 2 BaoFeng UV 5R radios could download and upload to CHIRP. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On Friday all I got was the following message: Radio Did Not Respond.</p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I tried reloading the latest version of CHIRP, no change. I tried an earlier version of CHIRP, no change. I reloaded the latest version back, no change. Visually the radio's red light blinks then the LED display blinks then the error message shows up on CHIRP.</p><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Any suggestions?</p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Thanks Chuck KJ7INT</p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">chirp_users mailing list<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" style="color: purple; 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