I just got a pair of Baofeng UV-5RTP tri-power (8/4/1W) HT's. I see on CHIRP's wiki page http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home and elsewhere to use BF-F8HP when trying to program from CHIRP. However, when I select that I get "An error has occurred: Incorrect 'Model' selected" and the radio reboots.
If I select UV-5R as the model then CHIRP is able to download from the radio - but in CHIRP the only available power settings are HIGH and LOW.
I tried uploading to one of the radios when selecting UV-5R and it seemed to work fine. On the radio I was still able to switch the transmit power between HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW - I'm just not able to set that in CHIRP.
Should I just keep using the UV-5R selection or will that have unforeseen consequences (beyond having to manually set transmit power if I want medium).
The firmware for both (holding down #3 while starting up) is listed as BFP3-23.
I'm on macOS 10.12.3 and using CHIRP daily-20170311 (latest build as of this morning).
Thanks for any info, Tycen K7TYC
I bet you that in your settings tab and other setings, it will say HN5RV01. just like my varient of the gt-3tp mk3. old firmware or sumething. i have to use uv5r with that too.
________________________________ From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com on behalf of Tycen Stafford k7tyc@k7tyc.com Sent: 16 March 2017 19:55 To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: [chirp_users] Baofeng UV-5RTP
I just got a pair of Baofeng UV-5RTP tri-power (8/4/1W) HT's. I see on CHIRP's wiki pagehttp://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home and elsewhere to use BF-F8HP when trying to program from CHIRP. However, when I select that I get "An error has occurred: Incorrect 'Model' selected" and the radio reboots.
If I select UV-5R as the model then CHIRP is able to download from the radio - but in CHIRP the only available power settings are HIGH and LOW.
I tried uploading to one of the radios when selecting UV-5R and it seemed to work fine. On the radio I was still able to switch the transmit power between HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW - I'm just not able to set that in CHIRP.
Should I just keep using the UV-5R selection or will that have unforeseen consequences (beyond having to manually set transmit power if I want medium).
The firmware for both (holding down #3 while starting up) is listed as BFP3-23.
I'm on macOS 10.12.3 and using CHIRP daily-20170311 (latest build as of this morning).
Thanks for any info, Tycen K7TYC
Neil, that's correct - HN5RV01. Old firmware, huh? I just got these off Amazon.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Neil B ne.b@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I bet you that in your settings tab and other setings, it will say HN5RV01. just like my varient of the gt-3tp mk3. old firmware or sumething. i have to use uv5r with that too.
*From:* chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com < chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Tycen Stafford < k7tyc@k7tyc.com> *Sent:* 16 March 2017 19:55 *To:* chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com *Subject:* [chirp_users] Baofeng UV-5RTP
I just got a pair of Baofeng UV-5RTP tri-power (8/4/1W) HT's. I see on CHIRP's wiki page http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home and elsewhere to use BF-F8HP when trying to program from CHIRP. However, when I select that I get "An error has occurred: Incorrect 'Model' selected" and the radio reboots.
If I select UV-5R as the model then CHIRP is able to download from the radio - but in CHIRP the only available power settings are HIGH and LOW.
I tried uploading to one of the radios when selecting UV-5R and it seemed to work fine. On the radio I was still able to switch the transmit power between HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW - I'm just not able to set that in CHIRP.
Should I just keep using the UV-5R selection or will that have unforeseen consequences (beyond having to manually set transmit power if I want medium).
The firmware for both (holding down #3 while starting up) is listed as BFP3-23.
I'm on macOS 10.12.3 and using CHIRP daily-20170311 (latest build as of this morning).
Thanks for any info, Tycen K7TYC
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Hi Tycen,
See below.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Tycen Stafford k7tyc@k7tyc.com wrote:
I just got a pair of Baofeng UV-5RTP tri-power (8/4/1W) HT's. I see on CHIRP's wiki page and elsewhere to use BF-F8HP when trying to program from CHIRP. However, when I select that I get "An error has occurred: Incorrect 'Model' selected" and the radio reboots.
Correct. See below.
If I select UV-5R as the model then CHIRP is able to download from the radio
- but in CHIRP the only available power settings are HIGH and LOW.
Correct. See below.
I tried uploading to one of the radios when selecting UV-5R and it seemed to work fine. On the radio I was still able to switch the transmit power between HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW - I'm just not able to set that in CHIRP.
High is HIGH and Low is MID. You just can't select LOW.
Should I just keep using the UV-5R selection or will that have unforeseen consequences (beyond having to manually set transmit power if I want medium).
Yes. See below.
The firmware for both (holding down #3 while starting up) is listed as BFP3-23.
If this were true, there would be no issue. Unfortunately with the introduction of BFB299 firmware back in 2013, the power on message no longer displays the "real" firmware version. The "real" firmware version can only be determined by using CHIRP.
Settings -> Other Settings -> Firmware Message 1: Settings -> Other Settings -> Firmware Message 2:
The real firmware version is "HN5RV01"
Until recently, Baofeng has differentiated between radios with 2 power levels and 3 power levels by the firmware version. CHIRP uses this difference to determine if the radio being programmed has 2 or 3 power levels.
But recently Baofeng started shipping radios with 3 power levels (BF-F9V2+, GT-3TP, UV-5RTP, etc) with "HN5RV01" firmware. This firmware version was originally assigned to radios with 2 power levels. So CHIRP is programmed to recognize this firmware version as being from a radio with 2 power levels.
Until a way can be discovered or developed to differentiate between the two radio types, this will be an issue.
If you wish, you could edit the uv5r.py driver file as explained here to allow the three power levels to be available.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/4445#note-4
I'm on macOS 10.12.3 and using CHIRP daily-20170311 (latest build as of this morning).
This affect all CHIRP supported operating systems.
Thanks for any info, Tycen K7TYC
Jim KC9HI
Thanks Jim, that explains it. I'll play around with the uv5r.py driver file. I also have a UV-82 and I just got a UV-5R5 today (also reporting firmware HN5RV01) so I'll give it some thought and see which route works best. If the only negative consequence of using the default driver file (and selecting UV-5R as my radio type) is not being able to program the transmit levels in CHIRP then I think I won't worry about it for the time being.
Appreciate the help - and CHIRP in general!
-Tycen
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tycen,
See below.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Tycen Stafford k7tyc@k7tyc.com wrote:
I just got a pair of Baofeng UV-5RTP tri-power (8/4/1W) HT's. I see on CHIRP's wiki page and elsewhere to use BF-F8HP when trying to program
from
CHIRP. However, when I select that I get "An error has occurred:
Incorrect
'Model' selected" and the radio reboots.
Correct. See below.
If I select UV-5R as the model then CHIRP is able to download from the
radio
- but in CHIRP the only available power settings are HIGH and LOW.
Correct. See below.
I tried uploading to one of the radios when selecting UV-5R and it
seemed to
work fine. On the radio I was still able to switch the transmit power between HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW - I'm just not able to set that in CHIRP.
High is HIGH and Low is MID. You just can't select LOW.
Should I just keep using the UV-5R selection or will that have unforeseen consequences (beyond having to manually set transmit power if I want medium).
Yes. See below.
The firmware for both (holding down #3 while starting up) is listed as BFP3-23.
If this were true, there would be no issue. Unfortunately with the introduction of BFB299 firmware back in 2013, the power on message no longer displays the "real" firmware version. The "real" firmware version can only be determined by using CHIRP.
Settings -> Other Settings -> Firmware Message 1: Settings -> Other Settings -> Firmware Message 2:
The real firmware version is "HN5RV01"
Until recently, Baofeng has differentiated between radios with 2 power levels and 3 power levels by the firmware version. CHIRP uses this difference to determine if the radio being programmed has 2 or 3 power levels.
But recently Baofeng started shipping radios with 3 power levels (BF-F9V2+, GT-3TP, UV-5RTP, etc) with "HN5RV01" firmware. This firmware version was originally assigned to radios with 2 power levels. So CHIRP is programmed to recognize this firmware version as being from a radio with 2 power levels.
Until a way can be discovered or developed to differentiate between the two radio types, this will be an issue.
If you wish, you could edit the uv5r.py driver file as explained here to allow the three power levels to be available.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/4445#note-4
I'm on macOS 10.12.3 and using CHIRP daily-20170311 (latest build as of
this
morning).
This affect all CHIRP supported operating systems.
Thanks for any info, Tycen K7TYC
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One more update on this. I made the change in the uv5r.py driver file and the download/upload to the UV-5RTP worked just fine with the radio type set as BF-F8HP . A happy bonus was that the upload/download to the UV-5R5 worked fine also. In CHIRP I set three different channels to low, medium and high - the UV-5R5 just interpreted the "medium" setting as "low" (but interestingly enough when I turned around and did a read from the radio it still read the medium channel as set to medium in CHIRP).
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Tycen Stafford tycen@tycen.com wrote:
Thanks Jim, that explains it. I'll play around with the uv5r.py driver file. I also have a UV-82 and I just got a UV-5R5 today (also reporting firmware HN5RV01) so I'll give it some thought and see which route works best. If the only negative consequence of using the default driver file (and selecting UV-5R as my radio type) is not being able to program the transmit levels in CHIRP then I think I won't worry about it for the time being.
Appreciate the help - and CHIRP in general!
-Tycen
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tycen,
See below.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Tycen Stafford k7tyc@k7tyc.com wrote:
I just got a pair of Baofeng UV-5RTP tri-power (8/4/1W) HT's. I see on CHIRP's wiki page and elsewhere to use BF-F8HP when trying to program
from
CHIRP. However, when I select that I get "An error has occurred:
Incorrect
'Model' selected" and the radio reboots.
Correct. See below.
If I select UV-5R as the model then CHIRP is able to download from the
radio
- but in CHIRP the only available power settings are HIGH and LOW.
Correct. See below.
I tried uploading to one of the radios when selecting UV-5R and it
seemed to
work fine. On the radio I was still able to switch the transmit power between HIGH, MEDIUM and LOW - I'm just not able to set that in CHIRP.
High is HIGH and Low is MID. You just can't select LOW.
Should I just keep using the UV-5R selection or will that have
unforeseen
consequences (beyond having to manually set transmit power if I want medium).
Yes. See below.
The firmware for both (holding down #3 while starting up) is listed as BFP3-23.
If this were true, there would be no issue. Unfortunately with the introduction of BFB299 firmware back in 2013, the power on message no longer displays the "real" firmware version. The "real" firmware version can only be determined by using CHIRP.
Settings -> Other Settings -> Firmware Message 1: Settings -> Other Settings -> Firmware Message 2:
The real firmware version is "HN5RV01"
Until recently, Baofeng has differentiated between radios with 2 power levels and 3 power levels by the firmware version. CHIRP uses this difference to determine if the radio being programmed has 2 or 3 power levels.
But recently Baofeng started shipping radios with 3 power levels (BF-F9V2+, GT-3TP, UV-5RTP, etc) with "HN5RV01" firmware. This firmware version was originally assigned to radios with 2 power levels. So CHIRP is programmed to recognize this firmware version as being from a radio with 2 power levels.
Until a way can be discovered or developed to differentiate between the two radio types, this will be an issue.
If you wish, you could edit the uv5r.py driver file as explained here to allow the three power levels to be available.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/4445#note-4
I'm on macOS 10.12.3 and using CHIRP daily-20170311 (latest build as of
this
morning).
This affect all CHIRP supported operating systems.
Thanks for any info, Tycen K7TYC
Jim KC9HI _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Tycen at tycen@tycen.com To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrep id.danplanet.com
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