as others have said chirp is much better..... however if you still wish to use the baofeng "VIP" software a couple of things you will need to know are

1) it is 2 languages (english and chineese) and usually defaults to chineese so all menus are "??" the 2nd menu *from the right* is the language selector.

2) you will need the lead in and drivers installed *before* you start the VIP program as if it cant find the lead the program will open close open close open close forever

i have both programs on windows 8 and chirp has neither of these problems and is much better.

73 M0RKY

-----Original Message----- From: IW2GJV via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 7:09 Subject: [chirp_users] how baofeng programm used ?

3 november 2015

hi, for windows 7 and UV-5R version BFS-297 (june 2014)

how version of VIP program original from BAOFENG (not chirp ) i download to use on windiows 7 ?

thnaks to help , 73