I'm on a trip and decided to bring my laptop, programming cable and UV-5R. I have never installed a programming software on it before. Setting it up was not without issue, but it wasn't a big deal either.

The first thing I did was plugged in the cable to see if the usb-to-serial driver would install. No joy. No big deal. I just went to the Miklor website and downloaded the driver for Windows XP. Driver installed, COM4 assigned, cable working.

The next thing was to download and install the latest CHIRP daily. I installed it and launched CHIRP. Problem. I got the dreaded..

"Application cannot run because application configuration is incorrect"

A quick google and I visited http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=5582 to get the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package. Once it was installed, I launched CHIRP again. Success.

I plugged in my UV-5R, selected Radio -> Dowload From Radio. The next dialog had already correctly selected COM4 so I set Vendor to Baofeng and Model to UV-5R and started the download. The UV-5R was read the very first time.

Jim KC9HI


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:23 PM, jim <jmsrandazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
To  any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with service
pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out about
chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any problems
at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there  study
your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and  and use
chrip you well not have any problems with this program..

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