They are different, I ran into the same problem with one of my technicians radios. Upload the problem radio to your computer, it will create a new file. With your other configuration open, select all your channels and paste into the other configuration. Then download to the radio.
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-----Original Message----- From: Jay Planalp jay@planalpmanagement.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:39 Subject: [chirp_users] Two Baofeng UV-5R radios but only one works with CHIRP
Hello - I am a new CHIRP user and have two Baofeng UV-5R radios. I was able to get CHIRP to communicate with one radio and uploaded some memory channels. However, when I tried the second radio, I got an error message "The upload was stopped because the firmware of the image (Ver BFB297) does not match that of the radio (BFB299 BFB297). However, when I power on the radios holding the 3 key down, I see that the firmware version of both is the same - BFB297. How do I resolve this??? Thanks. Jay