I'm not all that savvy at reading hex, but this is what I see in the debug.log file:
[2016-10-26 16:24:14,257] chirp.ui.reporting - DEBUG: Server reports version daily-20161018 is latest [2016-10-26 16:24:29,444] chirp.ui.mainapp - DEBUG: User selected Wouxun KG-UV8D on port COM1 [2016-10-26 16:24:29,546] chirp.ui.clone - DEBUG: Clone thread started [2016-10-26 16:24:29,546] chirp.drivers.kguv8d - DEBUG: Sent: 000: 7d 80 ff 00 7f 00 00 00 }.......
[2016-10-26 16:24:30,055] chirp.drivers.kguv8d - ERROR: Unknown error during download process Traceback (most recent call last): File "chirp\drivers\kguv8d.pyo", line 391, in _download File "chirp\drivers\kguv8d.pyo", line 353, in _identify File "chirp\drivers\kguv8d.pyo", line 321, in _read_record TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found [2016-10-26 16:24:30,056] chirp.ui.common - ERROR: -- Exception: -- [2016-10-26 16:24:30,056] chirp.ui.reporting - DEBUG: Reporting exception [2016-10-26 16:24:30,056] chirp.ui.common - ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): File "chirp\ui\clone.pyo", line 249, in run File "chirp\drivers\kguv8d.pyo", line 375, in sync_in File "chirp\drivers\kguv8d.pyo", line 397, in _download RadioError: Failed to communicate with radio: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found
[2016-10-26 16:24:30,056] chirp.ui.common - ERROR: ---------------- [2016-10-26 16:24:30,056] chirp.ui.clone - ERROR: Clone failed: Failed to communicate with radio: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found [2016-10-26 16:24:30,065] chirp.ui.clone - DEBUG: Clone thread ended [2016-10-26 16:24:30,065] chirp.ui.reporting - DEBUG: Reporting model usage: Wouxun_KG-UV8D,download,True [2016-10-26 16:24:30,066] chirp.ui.inputdialog - ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: Failed to communicate with radio: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found --- [2016-10-26 16:24:30,066] chirp.ui.inputdialog - ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): File "chirpw", line 67, in <module> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
[2016-10-26 16:24:30,066] chirp.ui.inputdialog - ERROR: ---------------------------- [2016-10-26 16:24:30,066] chirp.ui.reporting - DEBUG: Reporting exception