The Baofang UV-5 radios are finicky, because the Tx and Rx "serial port" lines are shared wtih the audio (mic in and sp out) lines. Therefore, it is essential that you tune the radio to an unused RF channel and trun the volume all the way up to 100% (I'm not sure, but I think you should set the squelch to at least the first level, also). If you do not do this, the radio's speaker out wire (i.e. RxD in to the serial port) will be too weak and it will be noisy.

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:07 PM Justin R <armatiage2001@gmail.com> wrote:
Good Evening Everyone;
I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.

Cheers!
Justin

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 8:53 PM Justin R <armatiage2001@gmail.com> wrote:
Good Evening Everyone;
I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.

Cheers!
Justin
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