I just received the above radio and am having a bit of trouble with the way CHIRP (or the radio) is handling the channels after programming.  The radio seems to work fine, the programming cable connected right away without any driver drama, and the factory software even loaded up and will upload and download to and from the radio, but it's otherwise mostly useless**.  Chirp seems to work fine as well as far as reading and writing to the radio, and I was able to import UV-5R files without any problem.  The problem I'm having is the order of the channels is scrambled when uploading or downloading.  I THINK it has something to do with the separate A and B memory banks.  I made sure I selected the "A" bank on the Settings screen,  but it still seems to scramble the channels.  Earlier today I manually entered twelve local repeaters and numbered them channels 1 through 12, all in Bank A, but when I downloaded the radio to CHIRP, the #1 channel was now #4.  I also deliberately didn't give any of the manually entered channels names, but there were channels with names scattered in with the other unnamed channels, apparently from Bank B.

If anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear them.

** The factory software has two separate screens for Bank A and B, and seems to work fine moving files to and from the radio.  The problem is I can't see any way to enter repeater offset frequencies or -/+ values; if anyone has made the factory software work please let me know.

thanks
Dave