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Re: COM4:PL2303TA DO NOT SUPPORT WINDOWS 11
by Terri Kennedy 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

Ken Hansen <ken(a)n2vip.org> wrote: > You realize the issue here is that criminals stole the design of > Prolific chips and sold copies, then the vendor coded their 'official' > driver to detect and refuse to work with the illegal copied chips, and > Microsoft, as a corporate policy, works to keep installed official > drivers up-to-date, right? > > This is a perfectly logical action by Microsoft, and any deviation > from running the most current official driver would be an > accommodation to support illegal copies of Prolific chips. [I apologize for turning this into a meta-discussion mostly unrelated to CHIRP, but feel that some facts need to be cleared up.] As I understand it, there are 2 issues here: 1) There are some fake chips which newer drives refuse to work with. 2) There are some legitimate Prolific parts that for some unknown reason, Prolific doesn't want to support on Windows 11. Case #2 is obviously not the user's fault. I'd argue that case #1 is also not the user's fault, unless the item they bought was described as "cable with fake Prolific chip". Punishing the end user for either seems unfair. Canon tried pulling trick #2 with their LiDE scanners, and VueScan showed that this was just a money grab by Canon (to sell entire new scanners users didn't need), and it provides its own scanner driver that is perfectly happy running those old scanners on new Windows versions. Microsoft just takes whatever drivers a hardware manufacturer pro- vides and bundles them into the monthly update. This has led to many problems in the past and will continue into the future, as they can just say "Go talk to the company that wrote the driver - you didn't by Windows directly from us, so you don't get any support from us". Besides, they're busy enough fixing their own bugs that break systems when updated. I also find it amusing that people are holding FTDI up as some ex- ample of a great company that doesn't do this - I guess the fact that FTDI intentionally bricked fake FTDI chips instead of just refusing to support them has faded from memory. Here's a refresher: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innocent-users-chips-…

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Will CHIRP add more AR-5RM settings?
by Ceferino Lamb 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

I'm trying out a few AR-5RM, intending to replace our fleet of aging UV-5R/GT-3TP rigs on the ranch. I like what I see so far in the AR-5RM. I downloaded from the HT using model UV-17Pro, loaded my freqs, then uploaded using model 5RM. For the DL, Grok advised me to use model UV-17Pro. But I see that the UV-5R has much more tuneability in CHIRP, while the 5RM has far fewer settings to mod. I wonder if that's just due to the 5RM being more recent by far than the UV. Or is simply that the 5RM has less settings itself. But then, CHIRP added settings such as Squelch level support to the UV, only available thru CHIRP. So perhaps they are still working on AR tuning. -- //CRL Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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New chirp-next build
by donotreply＠chirpmyradio.com 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

Greetings, A new build of CHIRP-next is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree since the last build and may include additional features, bug fixes, etc. Unless you have a reason not to, we recommend using the latest build of CHIRP-next at all times. You can get it from here: https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download A list of changes since the last build are here: 1f2beb0c tk760g: Fix deprecated current value settings abe27a9f Send referer header in bug report 0b2931d1 tk760g: Add Off-hook-decode setting a9932a43 Unify modern kenwood commercial step handling 2883f59d tk3140: Fix tuning step selection Issues addressed in this build: [Bug 12044] Kenwood TK762HG Missing setting --

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TYT TH-UV98
by jerzy.turek＠wp.pl 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

Please provide information on the possibility of changing the frequency range for the TH-UV98 radio. Best regards Jerzy

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Retevis H-777H Query
by Jamie Bartlett 26 Jun '25

26 Jun '25

Hi all, I'm currently trying to program a Retevis H-777H walkie talkie from a .img file that has been provided to me. I cannot upload it to the radio as the correct port is selected, but the model selector is greyed out. I cannot copy the module over as when I read from the radio the frequency is an immutable category. I purchased this radio to officiate american football games so I need to be able to operate around the 449 Mhz frequency. Please tell me if I can get this to work with the radios I have already purchased or recommend a different model that would be suitable. Thanks for the help, Jamie

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Re: Retevis H-777H Query
by John Wuest 26 Jun '25

26 Jun '25

What is your implication? It's not a FRS radio because it has only 16 channels? FCC IDENTIFIER: 2A3OOH777H Name of Grantee: Shenzhen Ysair Technology Co., LTD Equipment Class: Part 95 Family Radio Face Held Transmitter Notes: Two Way Radio Grant Notes FCC Rule Parts Frequency Range (MHZ) Output Watts Frequency Tolerance Emission Designator 95B 462.55 - 462.725 1.5417 2.5 PM 11K0F3E

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COM4:PL2303TA DO NOT SUPPORT WINDOWS 11
by jayshamar123＠gmail.com 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

ANY FIX FOR THIS COM4:PL2303TA DO NOT SUPPORT WINDOWS 11

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VX-3r
by Ricardo Duran 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Hello, In March I was able to program my vx-3r with Chirp but today when I wnt and edited my vx-3r and tried to upload the changes, I get the message that the "radio did not ack block 1" Neither does it want to read from my radio. It uploads my vx-5r fine, but here too it will not download from either of my two radios (vx-3r, vx-5r) Thanks, Ric, WD7U

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New chirp-next build
by donotreply＠chirpmyradio.com 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Greetings, A new build of CHIRP-next is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree since the last build and may include additional features, bug fixes, etc. Unless you have a reason not to, we recommend using the latest build of CHIRP-next at all times. You can get it from here: https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download A list of changes since the last build are here: e669e01f tk272g: Allow full-range entry on both models 8b2e7c78 Add Radioddity GM-30 da914588 h777: Convert to using ignore bits on BCD tones 889953dd Add ignore_bits to bcdDataType Issues addressed in this build: [Bug 12037] Kenwood TK-272G - Fix Frequency Range [New Model 9237] Radioddity GM-30 --

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Radtel RT-12?
by Gunnar Mathiason 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

Hello, I'm trying to find a way to program the Radtel RT-12 with Chirp. The compatibility list says that the Radtel RT-10 can be programmed as a Retevis RT22, so maybe there a similar solution for Radtel RT-12 as well. I have not found a solution for this. /Gunnar

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