September 2013 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] ic-2100, Icom USB OPC-478 FTDI (Valley Enterprises), driver from ftdichip.com and Windows XP
by Jean 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

I have an ic-2100, Icom USB OPC-478 FTDI (Valley Enterprises), driver from ftdichip.com and Windows XP setup. The usb serial port is on com 5 (I checked in device manager). With the ic 1200 in the clone mode, asking chirp to download from the radio, clicking OK and pushing the smwmw button on the radio, I get “An error has occurred. Failed to communicate with the radio unexpected response from radio”. I even tried without putting the radio in the clone mode......same response.....also tried two other computers (one XP and one Windows 7). When I ask the program to detect the radio I get....”An error has occurred. Unable to get radio model.” Am I missing a step or two or doing things wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Jean N2VQA

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[chirp_users] Problems Connecting Baofeng UV-5R to Software
by Jim Kennedy 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

I'm running Chirp on OS 10.8.4, trying to program a bunch of radios (Baofeng UV-5R) for our Civil Defense volunteer CERT communicator groups. I am aware that there are some issues with certain cables. So far, I purchased two cables (from different vendors), most recently Wouxum-US. In all cases, I am unable to connect to any of the radios using CHIRP (Mac) or the Windows (XP) with the Baofeng code. I've used the drivers with both that came from the Wouxum site. In both Mac and Windows, the software comes up and presents itself. When I attempt to read the radio, after a pause, I get a failed to connect message. Can you give me direction as to how best to fix this?

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Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 57, Issue 5
by Alan 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

As others have said, you need to insure a firm mechanical connection with the Baofeng. I put a rubber band around the combination to insure the adapter fully bottoms. If I don't do that, or hold pressure, I get lots of errors. 73s, Alan WA4SCA

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[chirp_users] uv5r uploads.
by kf8sj＠aol.com 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

if you can read from radio-your cables are ok. i have received errors when trying to read to radio-retry-sometimes 2nd or 3rd try will read to radio, so keep trying. do not stop on first error message. not sure what the quirk is. have reloaded drivers etc. and does not seem to make difference. have learned to work around it. 73 jim kf8sj (we are now up to 11 units in our local vfd all working quite well)

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[chirp_users] IC-80AD - DR Mode Memories?
by Stephen King 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Greetings All! I am new to CHIRP, but I was able to easily install the Mac software onto my MacBook and to install the driver to use the Icom OPC-478UC USB cloning cable. I was then able to "Download From Radio" from my IC-80AD. The memories load fine. However, the Repeater List does not appear ... so I do not see anywhere my DR mode settings ... which is critical to using the radio on D-Star. Perhaps I am missing something? I would really appreciate any help anyone can give, and if this was addressed previously I apologise in advance -- I did a manual search of the archive going back a year and did not see anything helpful. One issue I did notice is that the IC-80AD is not in the list of models available (even though it is listed as a supported radio) when you try to Download ... and the DETECT thinks it is an ID-80H .... not sure if that is meaningful or not. I have tried this with both 0.3.1 AND the latest Daily Build ... no difference in results. Any help???? Thanks in advance! Peace and 73 Stephen W3SMK/M0KKB

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[chirp_users] Will the Baofeng UV-5R+ programming cable work with the Kenwood TK2212LK (same pins)...& will CHIRP program this Kenwood?
by Allen Shine 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Re: will the Baofeng UV-5R+ programming cable work with the Kenwood TK2212LK (same pins)...& will CHIRP program this Kenwood? ( Kenwood's single programming CD is about $95 & their cable is about $ 39) what a rip off!

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[chirp_users] Wouxun KG-UV6D multiple radio configurations caution
by Leon Lessing 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Hi there, I am new to the group and have also used chirp. We import wouxuns into South Africa and the following happened to a customer of ours. He loaded an image file and burned it into 3 radios, the problem is that there is calibration data that is unique to the radio in the image file, so he destroyed 2 radios. The only remedy for this is the replacement of the rf board. Leon Lessing ZS6LMG

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[chirp_users] Support for Yaesu FT-8000R
by Dave Nathanson 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

HI, I have a Yaesu FT-8000R dual band radio that I would like to help get supported in CHIRP. I can loan the radio and cable. The radio is modified for wide RX/TX. If useful, I can provide a PDF of the user manual & (only) 23 pages of the service manual. The USB FTDI cable is from Valley Enterprises "Yaesu USB FT-7800 FTDI 10 feet". Also known as part#: RPC-Y7800-U-3M. I believe that this is the right cable, and it does fit into the back of the radio, but I am not 100% sure. I got the idea that the cable for the 7800 is the same as for the 8000 because RT Systems offers the same cable for 9 different Yaesu radios including the 8000 & 7800. http://www.rtsystemsinc.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=USB-29B I tried using the CHIRP setting for Yaesu 7800 to download from this FT-8000R without success. If appropriate I would be happy to open a "new issue" to ask for support of this radio, but I don't want to clog that process without asking here first. http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/issues/new Thanks, Dave

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Re: [chirp_users] Kenwood TM-281 Software
by Clint Bradford 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

In the meantime, of course, you can use Kenwood's free software for the '281 - available at ... http://www.kenwood.com/i/products/info/amateur/software_download.html Clint Bradford, K6LCS

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[chirp_users] kenwood tm281
by jim 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

hello chirp users i have been using chrip on my baofeng but would like to know when i look it up in chrip it does not show the tm 281 mobile radio and i would like to use chrip or do i have to go to the daily updates to find it and if so were or what number is it under so i can use for the kenwood tm 281 thanks

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