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[chirp_users] Baofeng UV82L Port problem
by Allan, Sr. 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

New list member. I have a new Baofeng UV82L that a friend loaded with his freqs using Chirp on his PC. I have installed Chirp software on my Win 7 PC along with the correct Prolific usb serial to com port driver 7/31/2007 v 3.2.0.0. My pc recognizes the driver as Com 3 and is operating normally. I want to upload my phone freqs into my blank Chirp software but I am getting an error msg after plugging in the usb cable "cannot open port 3 [Error 2]. The system cannot find the file specified" and Chirp will not connect to the phone. Any Suggestions?

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20141025 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #304 [Ron Wellsted <ron(a)wellsted.org.uk>] Bug #1973 - Wouxun KG-UV8D import from data source Changes to correct the above bug. Problem was due to wrong memory item name and an assumption about the length of certain fields.

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[chirp_users] FTDI Chipset driver bricking fake FTDI chips
by Aubrey Turner 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

The common wisdom with regards to USB-to-serial cables seems to be that one should pick FTDI over Prolific because of all the Prolific counterfeits in circulation. It seems that this is now becoming a problem with FTDI, as well. Up to now it was not a problem for the end-user. FTDI has decided to change that with their latest driver, which changes the configuration of a "fake" FTDI chip so that it is rendered useless (at least without a bit of fiddling with configuration tools and device IDs on Linux or XP). I hadn't realized that FTDI had such an issue with fake chips until I read this article. Some of the comments point out that the end-user of the device has no way of knowing whether the chip is genuine or not. Further, as noted above, many in the radio programming community purchased devices touted as having FTDI chips in good faith as an effort to avoid the counterfeits Prolific chips. Anyway, if you suddenly have issues with your FTDI USB-to-serial adapter, take a look and see if the PID has been changed to 0. If so, then you may have been affected by this new driver. Sources: - http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-k… - http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/ - http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=270175.0

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[chirp_users] CODE PLUG
by ZIP-G 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

NEED A IMAGE FOR THE UV5R+, FIRMWARE IS 5NR-20 // BFB-297, I CHANGED IT SOMEHOW. THANK YOU, WAYNE WS3PC/N3PC

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[chirp_users] Unable to save bank information.
by Bryan McWhirt 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

After I import the data from an Icom IC-92AD and I want to save all the config data I'm having an error. I'm on the tab "Banks(Band A)" and I do an export, I get the following error: There was an error during export: 'MappingMembershipEditor' object has no attribute 'prefill' I get the same thing for 'DStarEditor' -- KB9YEN Bryan McWhirt bryan(a)kb9yen.com

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[chirp_users] Icom 92AD Auto Detect Crash
by Bryan McWhirt 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I'm using both prolific and FTDI serial adapters. If I try to use auto detect on Icom it crashes the program. I've not tried with other radio brands as I only have the Icom. Before I file a bug report can anyone see if they have the same issue? I tried with both Stable and the current Daily as of this moment in time. -- KB9YEN Bryan McWhirt bryan(a)kb9yen.com

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[chirp_users] TK 270
by Dan Ginn 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I'm looking for software (other than DOS) for the Kenwood TK270. Anyone have ideas?

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[chirp_users] counterfeit FTDI
by Rick Farina 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Looks like prolific isn't the only company with counterfeiting issues, but according to this article, ftdi isn't just making their driver incompatible, they are literally bricking the fake chips: http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-k… A fix for the damaged hardware is available for now, but who knows how long they will keep it. If you use windows, be warned, your usb->serial converters may be damaged after your next windows update. -Zero_Chaos

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20141022 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #303 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add test image for Leixen VV-898 for #1833 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [VV-898] Add Leixen VV-898 (Jetstream JT270M clone). #1833 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [JT270M] Fix copyright typo. #1979

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Greetings, A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location: http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20141019 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #302 [Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com>] Add Jetstream JT270M test image for #1979 [Tom Hayward <tom(a)tomh.us>] [JT270M] Add support for Jetstream JT270M. #1979 [Jim Unroe <rock.unroe(a)gmail.com>] [UV-5R] Update pre_download And pre_upload Messages Update the pre_download and pre_upload messages to advise that it is sometimes necessary to have the volume control at 100% for reliable data transfer. related to #1977

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