Thanks for the information. I checked my driver on the Xp machine and installed the latest daily, That seems too have fixed the non-frequency settings issues.
On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:20 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Rick,
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Rick Hanzlik n7ngk@yahoo.com wrote:
Perhaps this has been addressed in another post, if so I would appreciate a reference to it but for now, here is my issues:
1: When I try to use CHIRP with on my 64-bit Vista home machine, I am unable to communicate to the radio, as soon as I turn on the radio, it displays the greeting then immediately goes into transmit mode. I pretty sure it has something to do with the USB ports on the computer because when I try to communicate with another brand of radio (QUANSHENG TG-K4AT) the same thing happens; Driver: Prolific Version 3.4.48.272 dated 3/5/2013
Chirp version: 0.3.1 Baofeng firmware BFB297 USB cable: purchased from AMAZON along with the radio.
Wrong driver. My bet is that your programming cable has an unauthorized copy of the Prolific USB-to-Serial chip. This requires you to downgrade to the v3.2.0.0 driver.
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
2: I can install the appropriate CHIRP software on my XP based netbook and the same USB cable and I am able to talk to the radio but I still have some issues: a) I am not able to program the non-frequency settings. the chirp software doesn't even show anything under that heading. b)When I upload my channel program to the radio, it will skip some memory locations even through i have the csv file set to have consecutive memory channel loaded.
You have to download from the radio first to get a spreadsheet template that is compatible with the radio that you are programming.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Beginners_Guide http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php
I have no problem using the netbook as my programing computer since I would normally have it with me anyway, but I would very much like to be able to change the radio non-frequency parameters.
Thanks for your help Rick Hanzlik N7NGK Salt Lake City, UT
I would recommend that you use the latest daily build of CHIRP. You are missing out on a lot of additional features and improvements that have occurred since the April 2013 release of v0.3.1.
Jim KC9HI