Yup. Amazon is doing the best they can to dump them

On Jun 8, 2016 9:41 PM, "Trevor Holyoak" <trevor@holyoak.com> wrote:
Uh oh. Is the V2+ the one that Woot just liquidated?

Wednesday, June 08, 2016 8:40 PM

Baofeng Tech South Dakota

The v2+ is not a model we sell or support and this is the issue

Our models are CHIRP compatible

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Wednesday, June 08, 2016 8:33 PM

My complaint

Regarding Firmware. If you refuse to provide Firmware to CHIRP programmers I will stop supporting your business & stop using your radios. I have sent you a lot of sales because of CHIRP & how easy it is to use. I love your radios & CHIRP. Together they are great! Honestly your software sucks! It is very difficult to use. I will not try it again. I suggest you supply CHIRP with the UV-5RV2+ & any future firmware or I will boycott your products & send new radio interests elsewhere.

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Wednesday, June 08, 2016 3:09 PM

I'm glad to see you have it worked out.

UV-5R style radio development for CHIRP has been quited active over
the last 4+ years. Except for a few recent models that chose not to
provide their firmware version, it you cannot program your UV-5R
variant, there is a 99% chance that it is a cabling problem (device
driver and/or connection of the cable to the radio).

Jim KC9HI
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016 2:51 PM
Success !

It ended up being three issues:

1) The speaker and mic jacks on my new UV-5RV2+ are not centered. They
are off by a few mm. Therefore, my programming cable would not seat
correctly. Trimmed the cable plug with a utility knife until it seated
properly. Incidentally, my old UV-5RA has the jacks centered.

2) While trimming the cable plug, I accidentally cut the ground wire.
After repairing that, the old UV-5RA could be read with CHIRP.

3) The 2014 version of CHIRP does not talk to the new UV-5RV2+. The
latest build does work correctly with the UV-5RV2+. Thanks !

A learning experience.

73,
Steve, N2IC
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016 11:37 AM

This is always how you should do it. Never upload a .img to a radio
different than it was downloaded from. You never know what could be in
that .img file that may not be compatible with a different radio due
to differing firmware versions, etc.

Always start by downloading from radio, save that .img as a backup.
Then you can start copy/pasting or importing channels from various
sources. Save as a new file so as not overwrite your backup, then
upload to radio.

Tom KD7LXL
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