Hi Tom
Ok, here is so far where I have gotten. I took the rig and cable to my other PC, it is running XP and of course I needed the driver. I loaded it and got my downloaded memories, made the changes, did a reset on the rig and uploaded the new layout. Now before anyone says I didn't need to reset the rig, I wanted to because I have a lot of mistakes in the memory so wanted to start clean.
Now back the the lap top and a comment. On the PC that worked it is a desktop model and has a serial port so worked, but that was after I loaded the driver for the USB adapter which I didn't use but may in the the future sometime. Now on the Laptop that it didn't work on and still doesn't work on, which is a Vista OS, and I have the correct driver installed from Belkin website. When I plug in the adapter and look in device manager I have serial port and it says port 3 is active. When I have chirp up and click on radio I get a window which has "Download from radio" in dark characters, the others are not active. When I click on "Download from radio" nothing happens. Normally I will get another box with COM Port, Rig and Start or words to that affect. So I am not sure what is happening here. On the Chirp site I think the FAQ mentions that is an indication of incorrect driver. I may see if the XP driver will work but doubt, and it may not even load. The good news is that at least I have the memories reloaded.
Marty kd8bj On 10/8/2013 2:14 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Marty Hartwell mhartwe@gmail.com wrote:
My Rig is the VX5R and according to the FAQ for Yaesu it says to put the rig in Clone mode, then launch Chirp and click on "Download from rig". When I do that I get nothing.
You should get *something*, either a prompt asking what COM port and radio you want to download from, or an error message. If you don't get *anything*, the only thought I have is that maybe you don't have any COM ports. Your debug.log should provide a clue.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_To_Report_Issues#Getting-...
I may have to go back to using my other PC which has Linux, or use the VX commander.
If it works with VX5 Commander, it will work with Chirp. They both require the same COM port and USB/serial driver. Trying with VX5 Commander would be a good test. (Note: You can import VX5 Commander .vx5 files into Chirp)
If you have Linux available, certainly try it there. It doesn't suffer from the same complicated driver issues as Windows, so things tend to just work.
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