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