<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi Chirp users,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> (New list subscriber. First post)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> I
recently had an issue (re)programming my Baofeng UV-5RIII with CHIRP
next-20231003, and found a 'workaround' using CHIRP daily 20200226. I
thought I'd document here for any possible future reference etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Backstory:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Back in January 2020 I purchased a 'Baofeng UV-5RIII'. I've a feeling
that this model had probably just come out at that time, and I didn't realise that getting a (b)leeding edge model might cause problems (yes, I
understand the land of 'UV-5R' firmware is a minefield... ;-).<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> At
that time I didn't have my license, so I grabbed CHIRP and programmed
up the radio. As well as entering some channels I changed the greeting
messages and disabled TX. As the 'III' was not listed (afaict) at the
time in CHIRP I dug around and found that the Baofeng UV-5X setting
worked.... all good.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Now:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Three
years later, I finally find a reason to try and transmit, having
forgotten that I disabled TX. I grab a new CHIRP (next-20231003), find
that the recommended model is the Radioddity UV-5RX3, and have at it.
Turns out I can program up the channels and edit a few of the settings
page entries, but I:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> - cannot re-enable TX on either band listed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> - change the greeting messages</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I
tried with the vanilla UV-5R and the UV-5X with basically the same
result (iirc) - at least, nothing would let me re-enable TX or edit the
message text.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The workaround:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Finally
I figured I could try and dig out the original chirp version I'd used. I
dug up the old laptop which still had the chirp and the .img files on
it. Voila, using chirp 20200226 and Baofeng UV-5X I can edit and upload
the TX settings and the messages. Sorted, my radio is now back to
functional.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">side note: although the radio says it is a tri-band 'III', the band button only cycles through two bands and Chirp only shows the two (U/VHF) bands in the settings. I don't know if this is a consequence of me meddling or not - I have no plans to use the 1.2m/220MHz band, so I'm not too bothered.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Not sure if that makes any sense to the developers, but hopefully it might help somebody else in the future.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For reference, my radio firmware details are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> 3B5RV01 (button 3 boot)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> 151123H</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> HN5RV01</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I'm
sort of willing to help gather any more diagnostics if necessary, I'm
fairly tech savvy. *But*, I'm wary of editing anything more on the radio
in case it reverts to non-functional ;-), so hopefully non-invasive data gathering if possible.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I'll stay signed up to this list for a bit in case there is some feedback or requests for more info, but if you want to ensure you reach me in the future you might have to send a PM.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Graham, M7GRW</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail_default gmail-adL" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div></div>