Re: [chirp_users] Pofung/Baofung UV-B5 on MAC OS X
So I id install the 3.2.0 driver on my Windows machine at work. After that I was able to access the radio with CHIRP. Thanks for that!
When I got home I tried some steps to remove/disable the existing USB driver on my MAC that I found in a thread on a forum I read too. After installing the driver for "counterfeit" Prolific cables I still got the "radio did not ack" error. I then changed the COMP (29) menu setting to ON. That seemed to do the trick! I can now access the HT with CHIRP on my preferred mac machine.
Now I need to RTFM to figure out how to use a dual band radio. Never had one before.
thanks for your help.
Mason K0MAS
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
Hi Mason, Did you try 3.2.0 driver model? I had to downgrade to it to get my Kenwood TM-281 programmed. I believe it's because of the USB Prolific chip clone from China. Hope it helps... Terry KG5EHR
And after reading the manual I see that COMP is the compressor, not computer. ha.
Yeah. You typically don't want the compander enabled. That setting only affects the VFO and when you are programming channels using the keypad.
To get to this setting in CHIRP, you right-click on a memory and then select Edit from the dialog box that pops up. That will allow you to check to make sure it isn't enabled.
Jim KC9HI
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:53 PM, mason fann masonfann@gmail.com wrote:
And after reading the manual I see that COMP is the compressor, not computer. ha.
Hi Mason,
I don't know why, but these silly radios (UV-B5 and UV-B6) seem to change the value that they "ACK" with when some of the settings change. When this "ACK" is some value that CHIRP doesn't expect, it reports the radio is not responding. I know I mess with this quite a bit, and Jens worked on it. Apparently the OEM software must ignore the "ACK" or at least only cares that it gets something back and must not care what it is that it gets back. Early on when I would get the "radio did not ack" error, I would reset the radio and all would be well again.
Anyway I'm glad to hear that you could get your computer talking with the radio.
Jim KC9HI
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:34 PM, mason fann masonfann@gmail.com wrote:
So I id install the 3.2.0 driver on my Windows machine at work. After that I was able to access the radio with CHIRP. Thanks for that!
When I got home I tried some steps to remove/disable the existing USB driver on my MAC that I found in a thread on a forum I read too. After installing the driver for "counterfeit" Prolific cables I still got the "radio did not ack" error. I then changed the COMP (29) menu setting to ON. That seemed to do the trick! I can now access the HT with CHIRP on my preferred mac machine.
Now I need to RTFM to figure out how to use a dual band radio. Never had one before.
thanks for your help.
Mason K0MAS
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