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[chirp_users] Baofeng woes
by Bobby Minchew 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Everything seemed to be great with my first programming attempt. Now I'm getting the dreaded NO SOUND while someone is transmitting. I found through a search that I could push the mono button down to hear. It worked. So I've obviously got a corrupted image or something. I'm new to this and it seems I've ruined this BF-F9V2. Any easy fixes? Thanks for any advice. Bobby Minchew Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active

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[chirp_users] New Daily Build
by Build System 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

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-20160309 A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows: Changes for Build #388 [Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <co7wt(a)frcuba.co.cu>] [PATCH][TK-760G] Fix the driver in windows and CH with no TX, fixes #2999 The driver was not working on windows, I take a while to learn by the hard way that the timing on windows is different from linux & mac. Now it works, fixed also the offset = off when you set a channel. I have extended the edges of the bands when they are very close to the ham bands, that's the way we use this radios in Cuba, for example: The radios with the default sub-band segment 148-174 Mhz can be pulled down to 144 Mhz in the lower edge with no problem, this mod works also in UHF. [Pavel Milanes (CO7WT) <co7wt(a)frcuba.co.cu>] [TK-760] Extended sub-band edges to cover ham bands, fixes #3139 Extend the sub-band edges to cover ham bands in VHF/UHF This mod is extendend and tested here in Cuba (the factory software allow it) 73

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[chirp_users] Baofeng woes 2
by Bobby Minchew 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Disregard. I had rctcs set on something other than OFF. Turned it to off and it worked Bobby Minchew Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active

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[chirp_users] app crashing with image upload (OSX)
by Ted Timmons 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

I only started using Chirp with the 3/1 build. I have a Prolific cable and a UV-5R (with the carrier squelch issue) on my OSX 10.10 box. I'm using the recommended KK7DS runtime. I installed the 1.6 kext from Prolific, then after discussion with Jim Unroe I grabbed the 2.0 driver from mac-usb-serial.com. When I upload the image that came off my radio, it works fine. When I try to use a "factory reset" image from Jim Unroe (that he personally supplied to me), I get a nasty crash. This is NOT the famous "error" reported by others on a factory reset. Here's the stacktrace from the crash- there's also a snippet of console log in there, which doesn't give anything as an ERROR. I can reproduce this with both the 1.6 and 2.0 drivers (thankfully, they bind to a different /dev location). https://gist.github.com/tedder/96c21d0a87c7c343ebdb What should I do next? The only reference to something similar that I've found was this, which went off on a different tangent: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/2015-August/003511.html and this, which is for d-rat: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/drats_users/2010-February/002828.ht… Note I'm still working with Jim to try some images. That doesn't explain why Chirp is crashing on these. -ted

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[chirp_users] The Tale of two Baofengs
by Bob 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Re cloning 2 Baofengs UV-5R one Yellow one Black. The issue has been resolved by updating Chirp to the latest daily build for Linux. Thank You all for your responses to my query. Thanks and 73, Bob, VK2BYF

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[chirp_users] Daily Build
by Jon G 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

I have a BF-F8HP handheld. I downloaded Chirp back last winter some time. The version I have works fine. Is there any good reason that I should update to the current version.....If it ain't broke don't fix it?? Thx -- *Dr. Jonathan Goodson*

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[chirp_users] The tale of two Baofengs
by Bob 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

2 Baofeng UV-5R one yellow one black. Tried to clone them by turning on the source (yellow one) while holding down the "mon" key. The black one is connected and on. Lights come on but black one stays in factory default. I can read the yellow one no problems Firmware BFS297 Black one, Firmware BFB297, same cable same chirp same USB port I get, "Radio refused to send block 0x0000" I have programmed dozens of these beasties with no problem. I have programmed Wouxuns, Yaesus, Icoms, no problem but this one's got be beat. I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 so no driver problems. Over to the Gurus, Thanks de VK2BYF Bob

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[chirp_users] Antomako/Anytone AT-5189
by Tim Schutte 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi Guys, I was given the mobile rig I mentioned in the Subject line. Has anyone managed to get the latest version of chirp working with this radio. If not, how can I help make it work? Tnx, 73-- Tim KC8HR -- *Tim Schutte kc8hr(a)sbcglobal.net kc8hr(a)yahoo.com kc8hr(a)arrl.net tjschutte(a)gmail.com "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." --Yoda*

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[chirp_users] Chirp won't work in XP with no service packs.
by Dan Jolley 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

I apologize if this is the wrong place for such a question, but I am restoring an old Windows XP laptop to program my radios in Chirp and the official BaoFeng programming software. The original laptop (2002 Toshiba Satellite) with XP came with no service packs installed. Do I need to install all 3 service packs for the Prolific programming cable (I'm using the XP driver for the prolific cable) to work with Chirp? I tried it with no service packs and Chirp didn't work, it kept telling me to reinstall Chirp but that didn't fix it. The BaoFeng official software seemed to work, I just read from the radio, but did not try writing back to the radio. Right now I have Service Pack 2 installed and I'm gonna give it a try. The laptop is so old that Windows XP Service Pack 3 really slows down the computer drastically. The laptop doesn't have much memory or a very big hard drive. XP with no service packs runs real fast, but slows down more and more as I install the service packs. I'm going to try it with service pack 2 installed. I do not have it connected to the internet so I'm not worried about automatic Windows Driver updates to mess up the Prolific cable. I'm just curious if anyone else has tried the same thing. I've got the FTDI cable on Win10 on my home computer but there's times I want to experiment using the laptop so I can free up my home computer. Thanks,Dan Jolley

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[chirp_users] UV5-RTP question
by Danny Richardson 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

Can anyone tell me if current version of CHIRP workswith the Baofeng UV5-RTP. Thanks & 73, Danny

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