I tried this and it had no ill affect on my very old UV-B5.

If anybody want to try this with their UV-B5/B6 I have attached the modified driver. Try it and report back if it now works with your radio, still works with your radio or no longer works with your radio.

Here is how you use the attached file...

1. download the uvb5.py file to where you save your CHIRP .img files 2. click Help and enable "Enable Developer Functions" 3a. click File -> Load Module 3b. select and load the file that was saved in step 1

Now try both downloading and uploading to your UV-B5/B6 radio.

Note that this is temporary and does not make any changes to your CHIRP installation. You must load this "module" every time you load CHIRP (or at least once before you download/upload from/to your UV-B5/B6 radio.

Jim KC9HI

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Richard Menedetter ricsi@gmx.at wrote:

Hi

...

If you got me the one line patch, I was planning to get it tested and then submit it to be added to CHIRP.

I do not know if this is a quick hack, but it works for me:

Go into the chirp/ subdirectory, and edit a file called uvb5.py Add this line above the line that says "radio.pipe.write("PROGRAM")" temp = radio.pipe.read(1)

Hope that the "new" UV-B5 will be fixed in chirp.

Also a small thing that I noticed. On UV-R5 and BF-F8HP the radio frequency is ignored. (Eg. you specify a value, you store to the radio, and it takes the default value instead of the one specified in the image)

...

Jim KC9HI

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