First off, many thanks to David for taking an initial pass at helping with this. One of the reasons for this list is so that users can help users and let me concentrate on writing code. I wish I could get more people to follow David's example :)
Today I finished up a mobile install of a Kenwood TV-V71A radio. I tried the stable version of Chirp (0.1.12) and also the daily build from Feb 9. When the program attempts to identify the radio it tells me that it is unable to probe the radio model.
I think this is a known issue. Can you try setting your radio to 9600 baud and using 0.1.12 to download it? According to this bug, that should work:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/27
I need to get over to the fire station with my laptop and wrestle with the V71 a bit to figure out what is going on.
Thanks!