Hi all.

This has been my experience with a UV5R. Maybe a little help?????

When I plug in my cable and turn on the radio (UV5R), it comes on in transmit mode, and stays key-down. As soon as I send the updated data to the radio, it will fail, but the radio will come out of transmit mode . . . USUALLY . . . BUT sometimes I have to send the data 2 or 3 times before it comes out of transmit mode. Then, after it's come out of transmit mode, it will accept the data OK. So, I try to tune to a frequency that most likely will not be in use when I turn the radio on, that way, when it starts up in transmit mode it won't interfere with someone else's QSO.

Also, and I'm not sure what chipset is in my cheap cable, I had to just roll the driver back to the previous driver BEFORE it would work. The next update made it fail again, so I rolled it back again and stopped it from updating the driver again and it has worked OK ever since.

Just my 2Hz worth!

73
Stan K8LL
NW Ohio
10-10# 76801
FP# 3255
Propagation is our master . . . but sometimes the master is cruel!
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On 5/28/2015 3:00 PM, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
I picked up a UV-B5 and am unable to program it with chirp. The console
> output is as follows:
>
> %chirpw
>
>
> ERROR: -- Exception: --
> ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/chirp/ui/clone.py", line 238,
> in run
>     self.__radio.sync_in()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/chirp/drivers/uvb5.py", line
> 315, in sync_in
>     self._mmap = do_download(self)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/chirp/drivers/uvb5.py", line
> 202, in do_download
>     do_ident(radio)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/chirp/drivers/uvb5.py", line
> 181, in do_ident
>     raise errors.RadioError("Radio did not ack programming mode")
> RadioError: Radio did not ack programming mode
>
> ERROR: ----------------
> ERROR: Clone failed: Radio did not ack programming mode
> ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: Radio did not ack programming mode ---
> ERROR: None
>
> ERROR: ----------------------------
>
>
> I've tried two different cables to no avail, and yes I had them seated.
> Not a windows environment so I don't think the IP hindrance is the
> issue. The radio's xmit light comes on but it seams to not be able to
> communicate with chirp.
>