Dan, That's a common error message with an easy fix. This should put you in the right direction. Refer to http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_ErrorMess.php
Enjoy your new toy.
John K3NXU http://www.miklor.com
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:45 PM To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] confirm 38baf0a3032d78067cbf98054549680f56c88ceb
Hello, I am not able to download from my radio using Chrip. My radio is a Baofeng uv-82. It is a new radio and I am new to chirp. My OS is windows 7. The cable is a usb programming cable form Baofeng via amazon.
The cable drivers are installed corectly. I can open the com port under Tera Term and shorting the TX and RX contacts togethter I can get it echo what I type. I can also probe the connection and see resonable data on the O-scope.
I have tryed the stable as well as the nightly build of chirp. When I try to download I get the error "the radio did not respond". It is hard to see but I think the cable is seated al the way in. With just the cable and tuning on the radio, It will not key but as soon as i plug the usb cable in the radio will key.
I have also tried to download from the radio on "copying" mode by holding down the 2 key while turning on the power. If I do this with tera term opend to the right com port I get a repeating set of bytes that look to be binary (garbaled ascii chars).
Any Ideas?
thanks,
kk6onl