Hi Mark,
Have you turned menu option 15 Transceiver Control (TC) to ON as the default is OFF?
I had to turn mine on to get it to work with CHIRP.
Please let me know how you get on.
Dave Gw8szl
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:15:35 +1300, you wrote:
Hi All
I am having difficulties getting CHIRP 20181214 to communicate with *a couple* of Kenwood TH-G71 hand-helds.
I am using a brand new BlueMax49ers supplied (FTDI) USB cable.
When connected to my Windows 7 Professional (64 bit machine) the driver seems to install fine. (No negative messages etc.)
However when I try to use CHIRP (version 20181214) to download from *a couple* of Kenwood TH-G71 hand-helds nothing happens. (no indications of download progress after over 10 minutes waiting).
I believe I read somewhere in the CHIRP documentation that there is *no need* to put Kenwood radios into 'clone' or similar mode.
I have also tried the same cable on another computer (also with the latest version of CHIRP) and also with 64 bit Windows 7 (Ultimate).
I've tried running CHIRP both as a User and as the Administrator. but get the *same result* regardless.
Can you please help me to figure out what may be the issue?
Thanks in advance
Mark Howie
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