Thanks Jim. I am based in Wales UK and had gone to bed by the time your mail arrived (along with several others that followed)
Armed with the clues you gave me, long story short, I have found through Apple support an app provided by Prolific which gets the port working. Having installed the app the Chirp ‘help me’ function told me that the radio was the VOX version and on switching to that a port was found and I have downloaded the radio’s settings.
The link for the app is https://apps.apple.com/tw/app/pl2303-serial/id1624835354?l=en&mt=12
Thanks to every one for your help. Looking forward to getting familiar with the radio and starting my Amateur Radio qualification quest.
Regards, Chris
On 24 Apr 2024, at 22:11, Jim Unroe via Users users@lists.chirpmyradio.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 4:01 PM Chris Hart via Users users@lists.chirpmyradio.com wrote:
Hi!
The data cable was supplied with the radio as a package recently by Amazon. It is in a plastic bag labeled ‘RETEVIS’ and has serial number 2310R91291. The bag also has the numberSKU:J9129A.
The box that the radio was in simply says Model RT95 and has the code A9129B.
I dug mine out. It is a Retevis J9129A and has a Prolific PL2303TA chip. That should work unless the driver in macOS has been updated to add the new PL2303GS chip and remove the PL2303TA chip which is now EOL (which is the normal course of action for Prolific and their drivers).
I have pasted below the debug.log in case that helps.
Yes. It indicates that, as I expected, there are no communications happening between computer and the radio.
The version of Chirp I am using is CHIRP next 20230710. When I select either RT95 or RT 95 VOX it warns that this is experimental and when I click OK it reports ’Non Initial response from radio’
Port used is /dev/cu.wlan-debug. I am running OS Sonoma 14.4.1
I could be wrong, but this doesn't seem like the correct port. How did you come about picking this port? Was it just one in the list? If that was the case, I would suggest that you choose "Help Me..." at the bottom of the port list and let the CHIRP-next helper walk you through the process of choosing the port to use.
I hope this is enough detail to identify the problem.
Your help is appreciated .
Regards, Chris
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