Re: [chirp_users] Help! Mac v10.14.5
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 8:53 PM Justin R armatiage2001@gmail.com wrote:
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
The Baofang UV-5 radios are finicky, because the Tx and Rx "serial port" lines are shared wtih the audio (mic in and sp out) lines. Therefore, it is essential that you tune the radio to an unused RF channel and trun the volume all the way up to 100% (I'm not sure, but I think you should set the squelch to at least the first level, also). If you do not do this, the radio's speaker out wire (i.e. RxD in to the serial port) will be too weak and it will be noisy.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:07 PM Justin R armatiage2001@gmail.com wrote:
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 8:53 PM Justin R armatiage2001@gmail.com wrote:
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
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Hi Dan,
The Baofang UV-5 radios are finicky, because the Tx and Rx "serial port" lines are shared wtih the audio (mic in and sp out) lines.
Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying here, they are not shared. Only the TX data, RX data and ground wires are in a 2-pin Kenwood style programming cable. The speaker and microphone wires are left out because they are not needed for cloning. The pinouts of the 2-pin Kenwood style speaker/mic plug can be seen here.
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Technical.php#spkrmic
It would be great if they were shared. We could then buy cheap $3 programming cables and cut off the USB end to make cables for APRS and other projects that need to have speaker and/or mic audio from the radio.
Therefore, it is essential that you tune the radio to an unused RF channel and trun the volume all the way up to 100%
I have Baofeng, BTech, Retevis, Kenwood, KDC etc. radios (various models of most) that use the 2-pin Kenwood style programming cable. In the 7 years I have been programming these radios with a computer, I have never intentionally turned the volume up any higher than the "click" it takes to power each radio on (unfortunately I let someone talk me into putting it into the cloning instructions for the uv5r driver).
I have also never had an issue programming a radio with CHIRP when the radio is tuned to a busy channel. For example I just downloaded from and uploaded to my UV-82 while tuned to the local NOAA WX Radio frequency which is busy 24/7. It is worth noting that some of these Chinese manufactured radios cannot manually program a memory if the VFO is tuned to a busy channel.
I do recommend that the radio is tuned to an unused frequency when programming, though. The reason is because there are several ways that an improperly configured and/or improperly connected programming cable can cause the radio to transmit (which would cause interference to the users of a busy frequency).
Jim KC9HI
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:10 PM Justin R armatiage2001@gmail.com wrote:
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
Hi Justin,
Have you downloaded and installed the KK7DS Python runtime for Mac OSX? See the "MacOS Users" section on the CHIRP download page.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download
If you truly have the BTECH PC03 FTDI programming cable, there should be no drivers to download. The native Apple FTDI driver should be sufficient. See the "FTDI cables" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
If the above doesn't help, then look at the "Troubleshooting" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
If you still have issues, then provide information like, the error messages, outputs from "ls /dev/cu*", etc.
Jim KC9HI
Jim, you have far more experience than I do. I am simply observing what I see at the Miklor site: http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Technical.php#progcable I wired up a cable based on these diagrams and it worked for my Baofeng UV-5RA. Basically radio speaker out --> computer serial in, computer serial out --> radio mic in, radio gnd <--> computer gnd, It just works. Maybe there are other hookups If so, where do they connect at the radio end? some place other than speaker out and mic in?
Incidentally, on my Yaesu FT-4, there is a separate signal for data. It is on the mic jack's ring, which is not connected in the FT-4's speaker/min cable but is connected in its data cable.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:10 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:10 PM Justin R armatiage2001@gmail.com wrote:
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to
CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
Hi Justin,
Have you downloaded and installed the KK7DS Python runtime for Mac OSX? See the "MacOS Users" section on the CHIRP download page.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download
If you truly have the BTECH PC03 FTDI programming cable, there should be no drivers to download. The native Apple FTDI driver should be sufficient. See the "FTDI cables" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
If the above doesn't help, then look at the "Troubleshooting" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
If you still have issues, then provide information like, the error messages, outputs from "ls /dev/cu*", etc.
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Jim, you are absolutely right and I am wrong. I wired it according to the diagram, but I mis-interpreted the diagram. I would like to claim that the diagram is confusing, but no, I just did not read it correctly.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:23 PM Dan Clemmensen danclemmensen@gmail.com wrote:
Jim, you have far more experience than I do. I am simply observing what I see at the Miklor site: http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Technical.php#progcable I wired up a cable based on these diagrams and it worked for my Baofeng UV-5RA. Basically radio speaker out --> computer serial in, computer serial out --> radio mic in, radio gnd <--> computer gnd, It just works. Maybe there are other hookups If so, where do they connect at the radio end? some place other than speaker out and mic in?
Incidentally, on my Yaesu FT-4, there is a separate signal for data. It is on the mic jack's ring, which is not connected in the FT-4's speaker/min cable but is connected in its data cable.
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:10 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:10 PM Justin R armatiage2001@gmail.com wrote:
Good Evening Everyone; I am running into an issue trying to get my Baofang UV-5R to clone to
CHIRP. I am currently running the newest version on mac v10.14.5 and have downloaded and attempted to use all the drivers mentioned on the CHIRP website and any other blogs I could find discussing the issue. The cable I am using is "BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio" off amazon. If you go to the Baofang website it redirects you to this cable on amazon. Overall I am just stuck, any help would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cheers! Justin
Hi Justin,
Have you downloaded and installed the KK7DS Python runtime for Mac OSX? See the "MacOS Users" section on the CHIRP download page.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download
If you truly have the BTECH PC03 FTDI programming cable, there should be no drivers to download. The native Apple FTDI driver should be sufficient. See the "FTDI cables" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
If the above doesn't help, then look at the "Troubleshooting" section of the "MacOS_Tips" page.
If you still have issues, then provide information like, the error messages, outputs from "ls /dev/cu*", etc.
Jim KC9HI _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Dan Clemmensen at danclemmensen@gmail.com To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com
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