On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Steve London n2icarrl@gmail.com wrote:
Success !
It ended up being three issues:
- The speaker and mic jacks on my new UV-5RV2+ are not centered. They
are off by a few mm. Therefore, my programming cable would not seat correctly. Trimmed the cable plug with a utility knife until it seated properly. Incidentally, my old UV-5RA has the jacks centered.
- While trimming the cable plug, I accidentally cut the ground wire.
After repairing that, the old UV-5RA could be read with CHIRP.
- The 2014 version of CHIRP does not talk to the new UV-5RV2+. The
latest build does work correctly with the UV-5RV2+. Thanks !
A learning experience.
73, Steve, N2IC
I'm glad to see you have it worked out.
UV-5R style radio development for CHIRP has been quited active over the last 4+ years. Except for a few recent models that chose not to provide their firmware version, it you cannot program your UV-5R variant, there is a 99% chance that it is a cabling problem (device driver and/or connection of the cable to the radio).
Jim KC9HI