Hey All,

First of all, thanks so much for your wonderful radio community resources.

I'm new to all of this, but just screwed up and so I've started actually learning!

Using Chirp, I uploaded an image from one of my radios onto the same model UV-5RA radio with different firmware (oops). I now can only receive on that radio if holding the mon button. I think I need to upload an image downloaded from a radio with the same firmware and then import my local frequency list using my CSV export.

The problem is, I can't find a chirp image with the right firmware version. The radio lists it as "N5R-213BFB297". I see at http://kc9hi.dyndns.org/uv5r/programming/CHIRPrecovery/ there are both N5R-213 and BFB297 images separately.

When I try to upload the BFB297 image using the latest daily Chirp software (chirp-daily-20141210), I get this message:

"Upload finished, but the 'Other Settings' could not be sent because the firmware version of the image ( Ver BFB297 ) does not match that of the radio (N5R-213BFB297 )."

If I use the N5R-213 image, I get the following error:

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Sending Magic: 000: 50 bb ff 20 12 07 25 00 P.....%.

Ident:

000: aa 36 74 04 00 05 20 dd .6t.....

Image Version is 'N5R-213BFB297 '

Radio Version is 'N5R-213BFB297 '

Image Special Block is 000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 ........

Radio Special Block is 000: 38 76 03 b5 b0 26 39 00 8v...&9.

-- Exception: --

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/simon/Downloads/chirp-daily-20141210.app/Contents/Resources/chirp/chirpui/clone.py", line 225, in run

self.__radio.sync_out()

File "/Users/simon/Downloads/chirp-daily-20141210.app/Contents/Resources/chirp/chirp/uv5r.py", line 670, in sync_out

_do_upload(self)

File "/Users/simon/Downloads/chirp-daily-20141210.app/Contents/Resources/chirp/chirp/uv5r.py", line 527, in _do_upload

radio_special_block)

RadioError: Image not supported by radio: `8v��&9'

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Clone failed: Image not supported by radio: `8v��&9'

Clone thread ended

--- Exception Dialog: Image not supported by radio: `8v��&9' ---

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/simon/Downloads/chirp-daily-20141210.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/chirp/chirpw", line 83, in <module>

os.putenv("LANG", langs[0])

IndexError: list index out of range

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Can I just modify the special block of the image? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Simon.