On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 6:23 PM K0LNY_Glenn glenn@ervin.email wrote:
Hi, I have a Baofeng HP 9+, and I'm using Chirp on an older Ubuntu live on a thumb drive, that I've booted to before and used to program the same radios. I was just able to first read and write to my UV 5R with the same cable that I'm trying to use on the 9+. I worked and worked on the connection, making sure it was tight into the radio. I reset the radio with menu 40 and #1, which is a full reset, it went to Chinese, and then I set it to English again, but it still won't read from the radio. Does anyone have any ideas why it won't read? I'm pretty sure the 9+ uses the same cable as the UV5R. Thanks for any suggestions.
Glenn
The Baofeng BF-F9{tack on any additional letters/numbers/symbols as needed} is a Baofeng BF-F8HP variant (basically a UV-5R with 3 TX power levels). So assuming that you have a working CHIRP installation and a working programming cable, you would make the following selections to program it with CHIRP:
Port: {match what was as assigned by your operating system} Vendor: Baofeng Model: BF-F8HP
Jim KC9HI