[chirp_users] "Download from radio" does not bring up clone window
Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed recommended drivers. Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
Mark
Some people have reported needing to run Chirp as administrator.
Have you tried that?
Joe Pizzi KI5LST
On 1/7/2021 9:47 PM, Mark Smythe wrote:
Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed recommended drivers. Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
Mark
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I will. Thanks
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 3:02 PM Joe Pizzi pizzi.joe@gmail.com wrote:
Some people have reported needing to run Chirp as administrator.
Have you tried that?
Joe Pizzi KI5LST On 1/7/2021 9:47 PM, Mark Smythe wrote:
Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed recommended drivers. Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
Mark
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Once I deleted old Chirp and reinstalled run as administrator I finally got the window to select vendor and radio (Icom 2100H) after selecting "download from radio". The port is defaulted to COM6 which is verified to be the one selected in the FTDI driver. However when I click OK, I get "An error has occurred - Failed to communicate with the radio. Unexpected response from radio". It doesn't matter if I run Chirp normally or as administrator.. same result.
I read the beginners guide. The cable TRS plug is firmly seated in the speaker jack, there is no antenna connected and I'm tuned to a clear frequency. I have tried with squelch both open and closed and with volume settings from 0 - 100%.
At the bottom of Bug #1113 for a similar issue with Icom 2100H, I read: "Some Icom radios are known to deny cooperation with FTDI cables (even genuine ones). Please try a cable with a genuine Prolific chip. Unfortunately cables with fake "Prolific" chips make the vast majority of cables on the market; genuine Prolific cables are on the more expensive side."
Can anyone confirm this to be the case? If so, who makes "genuine Prolific cables"?
Mark WA7URJ
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 3:02 PM Joe Pizzi pizzi.joe@gmail.com wrote:
Some people have reported needing to run Chirp as administrator.
Have you tried that?
Joe Pizzi KI5LST On 1/7/2021 9:47 PM, Mark Smythe wrote:
Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed recommended drivers. Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
Mark
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 3:06 PM Mark Smythe mark.smythe@gmail.com wrote:
Once I deleted old Chirp and reinstalled run as administrator I finally got the window to select vendor and radio (Icom 2100H) after selecting "download from radio". The port is defaulted to COM6 which is verified to be the one selected in the FTDI driver. However when I click OK, I get "An error has occurred - Failed to communicate with the radio. Unexpected response from radio". It doesn't matter if I run Chirp normally or as administrator.. same result.
I read the beginners guide. The cable TRS plug is firmly seated in the speaker jack, there is no antenna connected and I'm tuned to a clear frequency. I have tried with squelch both open and closed and with volume settings from 0 - 100%.
At the bottom of Bug #1113 for a similar issue with Icom 2100H, I read: "Some Icom radios are known to deny cooperation with FTDI cables (even genuine ones). Please try a cable with a genuine Prolific chip. Unfortunately cables with fake "Prolific" chips make the vast majority of cables on the market; genuine Prolific cables are on the more expensive side."
Can anyone confirm this to be the case? If so, who makes "genuine Prolific cables"?
Mark WA7URJ
Programming cables with an unauthorized copy of a Prolific chip will work, you just have to download, install and select the old Prolific v3.2.0.0 device driver. This is exactly what I have been doing for over 8 years. Since the majority of programming cables being supplied with a radio being submitted for inclusion with CHIRP have been of the unauthorized copy variety, I just keep the older device driver installed and selected on the Windows computer that I program radios with.
I do have one rare programming cable sporting a genuine Prolific USB-to-Serial chip. Back when I bought it, I used it to check all of the Prolific device drivers that I could find in order to determine which was the last available Prolific driver before they became cripled. That turned out to be v3.3.2.105. It works great with CHIRP but is incompatible with some OEM programming software. Falling back to v3.2.0.0 was necessary to work with both.
Page with link to V3.2.0.0 driver and instructions for installing and selecting: https://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
Jim KC9HI
Jim, I'll give it a try. In the process of returning the Valley FTDI cable now and nice to know I won't have to go the RT route even though I like them for my newer radios. Just don't want to spend that much on an older radio.
Mark
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 1:06 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 3:06 PM Mark Smythe mark.smythe@gmail.com wrote:
Once I deleted old Chirp and reinstalled run as administrator I finally
got the window to select vendor and radio (Icom 2100H) after selecting "download from radio". The port is defaulted to COM6 which is verified to be the one selected in the FTDI driver. However when I click OK, I get "An error has occurred - Failed to communicate with the radio. Unexpected response from radio". It doesn't matter if I run Chirp normally or as administrator.. same result.
I read the beginners guide. The cable TRS plug is firmly seated in the
speaker jack, there is no antenna connected and I'm tuned to a clear frequency. I have tried with squelch both open and closed and with volume settings from 0 - 100%.
At the bottom of Bug #1113 for a similar issue with Icom 2100H, I read:
"Some Icom radios are known to deny cooperation with FTDI cables (even genuine ones). Please try a cable with a genuine Prolific chip.
Unfortunately cables with fake "Prolific" chips make the vast majority
of cables on the market; genuine Prolific cables are on the more expensive side."
Can anyone confirm this to be the case? If so, who makes "genuine
Prolific cables"?
Mark WA7URJ
Programming cables with an unauthorized copy of a Prolific chip will work, you just have to download, install and select the old Prolific v3.2.0.0 device driver. This is exactly what I have been doing for over 8 years. Since the majority of programming cables being supplied with a radio being submitted for inclusion with CHIRP have been of the unauthorized copy variety, I just keep the older device driver installed and selected on the Windows computer that I program radios with.
I do have one rare programming cable sporting a genuine Prolific USB-to-Serial chip. Back when I bought it, I used it to check all of the Prolific device drivers that I could find in order to determine which was the last available Prolific driver before they became cripled. That turned out to be v3.3.2.105. It works great with CHIRP but is incompatible with some OEM programming software. Falling back to v3.2.0.0 was necessary to work with both.
Page with link to V3.2.0.0 driver and instructions for installing and selecting: https://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
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Hi Mark,
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:47 PM Mark Smythe mark.smythe@gmail.com wrote:
Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed recommended drivers. Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
Mark
It sounds like you are trying to upload a tab that was not previously downloaded from a radio. You can't go File -> New and try to upload that to a radio. You also can't directly upload a CSV file to any radio. For this reason, the Upload selection would be greyed out if either of these two tab types were selected.
You always have to download first to create a tab that is compatible with your radio. Save the first successful download, unedited, to a CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file to be kept in a save place as a backup. Then edit a second copy as needed. This tab will be permitted to be uploaded back to the same type of radio that is originally came from.
Jim KC9HI
Jim, I'm trying to do the initial " download from radio" per the beginners document so the first radio to pc transfer.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 4:58 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:47 PM Mark Smythe mark.smythe@gmail.com wrote:
Windows 10 using Valley enterprises USB OPC-478 FTDI and installed
recommended drivers. Cable plugged into PC and IC-2100H.
I can not select serial port or radio without the clone window.
Mark
It sounds like you are trying to upload a tab that was not previously downloaded from a radio. You can't go File -> New and try to upload that to a radio. You also can't directly upload a CSV file to any radio. For this reason, the Upload selection would be greyed out if either of these two tab types were selected.
You always have to download first to create a tab that is compatible with your radio. Save the first successful download, unedited, to a CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file to be kept in a save place as a backup. Then edit a second copy as needed. This tab will be permitted to be uploaded back to the same type of radio that is originally came from.
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 8:26 PM Mark Smythe mark.smythe@gmail.com wrote:
Jim, I'm trying to do the initial " download from radio" per the beginners document so the first radio to pc transfer.
Then I would reboot to make sure CHIRP wasn't running. Then right-click the installer file and choose "Run as administrator" to install/update CHIRP.
Jim
I'll give it a try in a couple days. Out of town now. Thanks
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:02 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 8:26 PM Mark Smythe mark.smythe@gmail.com wrote:
Jim, I'm trying to do the initial " download from radio" per the
beginners document so the first radio to pc transfer.
Then I would reboot to make sure CHIRP wasn't running. Then right-click the installer file and choose "Run as administrator" to install/update CHIRP.
Jim _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Mark Smythe at mark.smythe@gmail.com To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com
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