Doug,

Yep. Thanks for being so detailed with your initial post. It made it easy to diagnose the issue.

The way I see it, the folks at Baofeng, with the last few releases, has been putting the firmware version in the wrong line of the 3+Power-on message.

The format used to be like this
" Ver " "BFB297 "

Then when BFB299 came out they looked like this
"BFB299 " "BFB297 "
The " Ver " was overwritten and the previous "BFB297 " survived. To me this appears to be an accidental mistake on Baofeng's part. CHIRP was updated to deal with this change a few days before v0.3.0 stable was released.

And now you have
"BFB301 " "BFB297 "

Would you do me a favor? First, save your settings to a file so that they can be restored. Then perform a menu 40 reset on your UV-5R. After the reset, download from your UV-5R and save the data to an .img file with a different name than what you used before (ResetFileFromDougForJim.img or similar) and email it to me ( uv5r@kc9hi.net ). Then you can restore you settings using the file that you save earlier.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

Jim

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Doug Gilbert <dougandsharon@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

Jim,

That did it – With that CHIRP 0.3.0 version, I am able to Upload/Download my UV-5R+ channels.

The other link I used was the one contained on http://miklor-uv5r.99k.org/UV5R-CHIRP.html and was the one recommended. Someone might want to correct that link for other UV-5R+ owners. It will save them mucho trouble and discouragement.

After looking at both VIP and CHIRP, I’d rather use CHIRP – it’s much more complete and seems to work better.

Thanks for the assist… 73’s
Doug