September 2015 - Users - lists.chirpmyradio.com

[chirp_users] UV 5R use on Public Service VHF
by Sarge ex 7thAF 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

My wife and I are both long time Hams and First Responders. We have permission to use radios on both county and city police and fire departments in a limited way. However we must provide our own radios. It reads like the UV 5R could possibly do this on VHF analog repeaters. I think their is more programming steps that must be done in order to make it possible. An example freq as xmitted by my county repeater is 155.655. There are several others. If someone could post step by step how to do this I would greatly appreciate it. -- Sarge KE5YPB, Lickskillet, Texas "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." " Lets Roll " ---- Todd Beemer--- 9/11/01 --- American Hero Are you going to take a stand to help America in 2016 ?

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[chirp_users] MacOS USB connection problems with Yosemite (10.10.5) and a Wouxun KG-UVD1P
by Ed Lomax 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Hello, Everyone. I am a brand new chirp user. As it is described in the Subject line, I am trying to connect to a Wouxun KG-UVD1P using chirp. When I attempt to download from the radio, I only have access to two Bluetooth ports. I am unable to access either of the two USB ports on this MacBook Pro. I am using what appears to be the official Wouxun USB cable I ordered for Amazon. I checked the relevant chirp pages and all I see are solutions for MacOS versions 10.9 and earlier. I am using MacOS 10.10.5 Any ideas about how I can access the USB port or current driver that will enable me to access my radio? Thanks in advance. Ed Lomax (e_lomax(a)yahoo.com)

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Re: [chirp_users] Question about TYT dual band
by sprice＠sprice.net 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

I recently purchased a TYT TH-9000D. My understanding is that this is the Dual Band version (VHF/UHF) I've tried using the recent daily build to communicate with the radio, but every time I do I receive an "unsupported device" error. There are 3 types of TH-9000 listed and I believe these are for the single band models. Is there specific support for the D model? It's mentioned on the website but I think it may just be the regular TH-9000. Thanks for any help anyone can provide. -SP

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[chirp_users] TYT 9800 / chirp driver
by alfredmjones＠yahoo.com 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

I need some ideas here. I have a Baofeng UV82L that I program with Chirp and have no problem cloning this for the various UV5? radios that people have around here. I'm comfortable with Chirp. Recently purchased a TYT 9800; I have no problem programming that from the front panel, but I'm a computer junky and it's normally easier to enter / fix radio data programmatically. Running Windows 10, updated; have a cable that claims to be a TYT (the label on the cable); when plugged in device manager reports "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)" The Prolific 3.2.0.0 driver announces itself as being available on com 4 when the Baofeng cable is plugged in; however I see no com ports available for the TYT - I have not been able to get either the driver that came with the disk or the one available fro Grapevine (retailer in Dallas) to install. Any comments / suggestions would be appreciated. I'm at a loss. //al

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[chirp_users] How to program null channels
by B Stone 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Dear fellow Chirp'ers: I am trying to program in a few channels while leaving some channels blank. I was able to do this with a version of Chirp from 2014 but I recently tried to upload my old .img to a new UV-82 and was met with a firmware incompatibility message. In my new .img I set the channels I want to use (0, 3, and 4) and want the rest of the channels to be completely unavailable (if you are on channel 0 and press the up arrow then you immediately go to 2 having skipped 1). I thought the way to do this was to was to set the frequency to 0.000000 but I get an error message about being out of reference. I also tried to use a CSV file to import and saw just the few channels I need but this didn't result in the radio only having those three channels. I am including a screenshot of my old .img in hopes this can be guiding. I thank you for your time and assistance. Sincerely, B Stone

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[chirp_users] Question about TYT dual band
by sprice＠sprice.net 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

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[chirp_users] Weierwei radio
by slynchmob＠aol.com 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Will Chirp setup programming for Weierwei Radios

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[chirp_users] BaoFeng programming
by Craig Ryan 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

I have the BaoFeng UV-5R and the BaoFeng BF-F8+ and this problem happens with both radios when I try to program them from CHIRP on my iMac. I just downloaded the new version of CHIRP and it seems to do the frequency programming fine. But I have noticed lately with both the 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 versions, that the Power-On Message that I have programmed, does not come across to the radio. I have menu item 38 on the radio set to msg and the “Message” dialog is set in CHIRP but it does not come across. There may be other things that do not program as well but the radio performs in the few modes that I use so I dont’ know about any other settings. Also, with both versions, after the programming I get an error message “CHIRP quit unexpectedly” and a long list of comments. I have included a screen shot of the first page. Incidentally, clicking “Reopen” does not reopen CHIRP After this happened several times, I re-installed the Python runtime and had the same results. Do I need to un-install the old Python runtime before installing the latest one? Have you got any other ideas? I’ll look forward to your response. Craig Ryan

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[chirp_users] I think I need a newer firmware (factory) file than was listed on KC0HI
by David R. Hassall WA5DJJ 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Dear Members, My friends radio seems to have the dreaded audio blocking problem after another friend tried to program it. I think it has A corrupted Settings . I downloaded the latest daily build and have this information: 1st firmware message: N5R2407 2nd firmware message: BFB297 6+[power-on message: 150425N Using this information I went to KC9HI's listing or factory or rest image files and found: N5R2407(141006N) But no N5R2407(150425N) Does anybody here have the correct image file for this radio or know where I can find it? Am I out in Left field somewhere? Any help or suggestions on how to get this radio back into this world would be appreciated. It is a brand new radio so maybe the factory image lists just have not caught up with the newer Versions. Since I was not the first person to try to upload the channels listing to this radio I Have no idea what was done before me. Thanks for the bandwidth. 73 Dave WA5DJJ Las Cruces, New Mexico Website: http://www.zianet.com/dhassall/

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[chirp_users] Icom IC-V82
by Peter O'Hanlon 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

My IC-V82 doesn't work with Chirp. I am using Chirp for Mac. Works 100% with my Baofeng UV5-R. Chirp uploads from the radio and downloads to the radio until right at the end it says that there was an error and wipes the radio. I have to use a Windows machine to program it. Any ideas/solutions? Cheers Pete ZS1OH

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