[chirp_users] CHIRP DOWNLOAD problems
I downloaded CHIRP from the Web Site to WD 10 and after the down load was completed there was no sign of a CHIRP shortcut on my desk top.
Went to C: (x86) CHIRP and found shortcut. I dragged the shortcut to Desktop. I clicked on the CHIRP ICON and Chirp loaded.
I then installed the Baofeng USB Programming Cable for Baofeng Two way Radio UV-5R, BF-888S,BF-F8+ With Driver CD to my BF-F8HP Radio.
I attempted to install the Driver CD and found it corrupted.
I thought that my windows 10 had the most up to date USB Driver and I would not need the one that came with the Programing Cable. I may have been wrong and do need a special Driver.
I than plugged the programing Cable in to the USB Port and then the Radio, turned the Radio on, started CHIRP, clicked the Radio Menu, input vendor info, started download.
Message:
Due to the fact that the manufacturer continues to release new versions of the firmware with obscure and hard-to-track changes, this driver may not work with your device. Thus far and to the best knowledge of the author, no UV-5R radios have been harmed by using CHIRP. However, proceed at your own risk!
Typed USB in port assignment box and tried again with the following results.
Do I need a special USB Driver?
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
Hi Scott
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 4:07 PM, SCOTT PETERSON SPETE2@verizon.net wrote:
I downloaded CHIRP from the Web Site to WD 10 and after the down load was completed there was no sign of a CHIRP shortcut on my desk top.
Of course not. Assuming you downloaded the recommended version for Windows, you have to go to the folder that you downloaded it to and double-click the downloaded file to install it.
Went to C: (x86) CHIRP and found shortcut. I dragged the shortcut to Desktop. I clicked on the CHIRP ICON and Chirp loaded.
I then installed the Baofeng USB Programming Cable for Baofeng Two way Radio UV-5R, BF-888S,BF-F8+ With Driver CD to my BF-F8HP Radio.
Sounds like you purchased one of the low cost programming cables manufactured with a counterfeit Prolific chip.
I attempted to install the Driver CD and found it corrupted.
It is generally recommended you ignore the CD that comes with one of these programming cables.
I thought that my windows 10 had the most up to date USB Driver and I would not need the one that came with the Programing Cable. I may have been wrong and do need a special Driver.
Window 10 will download and install the latest driver supplied to them by the Prolific company. The latest driver is intentionally incompatible with counterfeit Prolific chips. You will most likely have to download, install and select the older Prolific v3.2.0.0 driver that was available before the Prolific company decided to combat piracy of their chip.
I than plugged the programing Cable in to the USB Port and then the Radio, turned the Radio on, started CHIRP, clicked the Radio Menu, input vendor info, started download.
Message:
Due to the fact that the manufacturer continues to release new versions of the firmware with obscure and hard-to-track changes, this driver may not work with your device. Thus far and to the best knowledge of the author, no UV-5R radios have been harmed by using CHIRP. However, proceed at your own risk!
This is just a standard warning that you get when programming a Baofeng UV-5R or similar radio. Tick the box so that you will not see it in the future.
Typed USB in port assignment box and tried again with the following results.
USB is not a valid port. These radios are programmed by way of a serial (aka COM) port. Modern computers do not have a COM port. The chip in the programming cable in conjunction with the device driver create a virtual COM port. When a compatible device driver is installed, the programming cable will be assigned a COM port number from COM1 to COM256. If the programming cable is plugged in and a compatible device drive is installed before CHIRP is launched, the available COM port(s) should be listed in the dropdown list for you to choose from.
Do I need a special USB Driver?
You may need a compatible driver if your programming cable has the counterfeit Prolific mentioned above. Check the miklor.com website. It has a page that shows you how to find out which chip is in your programming cable (Prolific, FTDI, etc) and how to do downgrade the driver if you have the counterfeit Prolific chip (nearly all Prolific type chips in programming cables are counterfeit).
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Yes. Pitch the CD. Determine which chip is in your programming cable. If it is a Prolific type chip, download, install and select the older, compatible driver. Use Device Manager to determine which COM port was assigned to the programming cable. Select that COM port when downloading from the radio. Save the first successful download from the radio, unedited, to a native CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file to be kept unchanged as a backup.
Thanks in advance,
Scott
Good luck, Jim KC9HI
-----Original Message----- From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Jim Unroe Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:21 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP DOWNLOAD problems
Hi Scott
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 4:07 PM, SCOTT PETERSON < mailto:SPETE2@verizon.net SPETE2@verizon.net> wrote:
I downloaded CHIRP from the Web Site to WD 10 and after the down load
was completed there was no sign of a CHIRP shortcut on my desk top.
Of course not. Assuming you downloaded the recommended version for Windows, you have to go to the folder that you downloaded it to and double-click the downloaded file to install it.
Went to C: (x86) CHIRP and found shortcut. I dragged the shortcut to
Desktop. I clicked on the CHIRP ICON and Chirp loaded.
I then installed the Baofeng USB Programming Cable for Baofeng Two way
Radio UV-5R, BF-888S,BF-F8+ With Driver CD to my BF-F8HP Radio.
Sounds like you purchased one of the low cost programming cables manufactured with a counterfeit Prolific chip.
I attempted to install the Driver CD and found it corrupted.
It is generally recommended you ignore the CD that comes with one of these programming cables.
I thought that my windows 10 had the most up to date USB Driver and I
would not need the one that came with the Programing Cable. I may have
been wrong and do need a special Driver.
Window 10 will download and install the latest driver supplied to them by the Prolific company. The latest driver is intentionally incompatible with counterfeit Prolific chips. You will most likely have to download, install and select the older Prolific v3.2.0.0 driver that was available before the Prolific company decided to combat piracy of their chip.
I than plugged the programing Cable in to the USB Port and then the
Radio, turned the Radio on, started CHIRP, clicked the Radio Menu,
input vendor info, started download.
Message:
Due to the fact that the manufacturer continues to release new
versions of the firmware with obscure and hard-to-track changes, this
driver may not work with your device. Thus far and to the best
knowledge of the author, no UV-5R radios have been harmed by using
CHIRP. However, proceed at your own risk!
This is just a standard warning that you get when programming a Baofeng UV-5R or similar radio. Tick the box so that you will not see it in the future.
Typed USB in port assignment box and tried again with the following
results.
USB is not a valid port. These radios are programmed by way of a serial (aka COM) port. Modern computers do not have a COM port. The chip in the programming cable in conjunction with the device driver create a virtual COM port. When a compatible device driver is installed, the programming cable will be assigned a COM port number from COM1 to COM256. If the programming cable is plugged in and a compatible device drive is installed before CHIRP is launched, the available COM port(s) should be listed in the dropdown list for you to choose from.
Do I need a special USB Driver?
You may need a compatible driver if your programming cable has the counterfeit Prolific mentioned above. Check the miklor.com website. It has a page that shows you how to find out which chip is in your programming cable (Prolific, FTDI, etc) and how to do downgrade the driver if you have the counterfeit Prolific chip (nearly all Prolific type chips in programming cables are counterfeit).
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
This is what I found using Device Manager
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Yes. Pitch the CD. Determine which chip is in your programming cable.
If it is a Prolific type chip, download, install and select the older, compatible driver. Use Device Manager to determine which COM port was assigned to the programming cable. Select that COM port when downloading from the radio. Save the first successful download from the radio, unedited, to a native CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file to be kept unchanged as a backup.
Thanks in advance,
Scott
Good luck,
Jim KC9HI
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This is what I found using Device Manager
OK. The good news is you don't have a Prolific type chip. It is instead is
a WCH CH340 chip. The driver auto-installed by Windows should be fine.
The port assigned to the programming cable is COM3 so that is what you should choose.
Jim
Ok I found the hang-up, the plug into the Radio was not completely seated. Downloaded the Radio Image and saved it to a work file. That done I opened the repeater local listing selecting 220 MHz and populated the Radio image list 1-44, then went to 440 MHz attempting to populate list 45 plus. Didn’t work instead it overwrote the 1-44 list. HELP!!!
Scott
From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Jim Unroe Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 4:44 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP DOWNLOAD problems
This is what I found using Device Manager
OK. The good news is you don't have a Prolific type chip. It is instead is a WCH CH340 chip. The driver auto-installed by Windows should be fine.
The port assigned to the programming cable is COM3 so that is what you should choose.
Jim
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:46 PM, SCOTT PETERSON SPETE2@verizon.net wrote:
Ok I found the hang-up, the plug into the Radio was not completely seated. Downloaded the Radio Image and saved it to a work file. That done I opened the repeater local listing selecting 220 MHz and populated the Radio image list 1-44, then went to 440 MHz attempting to populate list 45 plus. Didn’t work instead it overwrote the 1-44 list. HELP!!!
Scott
It is exactly what you asked it to do. When you import from RepeaterBook or other data source, you must "map" the repeaters that you select to the memories that you want to import them to (by adjusting the "To" column). If do don't change the default maping, it always starts with the first memory.
Another way would be to use "Query data source". It imports into a separate tab which will allow you to copy-and-past from the source tab to the position you want in the destination tab.
Jim
If device manager shows your cable to be a Prolific, roll your driver back to 3.2.0.0. Your cable probably has a fake chip in it and the latest drivers are designed to stop the cables from working. The older drivers work just fine.
Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio
We keep trying to interfere with elections, but pesky moose and squirrel keep interfering!
On Oct 27, 2017, at 13:07, SCOTT PETERSON SPETE2@VERIZON.NET wrote:
I downloaded CHIRP from the Web Site to WD 10 and after the down load was completed there was no sign of a CHIRP shortcut on my desk top.
Went to C: (x86) CHIRP and found shortcut. I dragged the shortcut to Desktop.. I clicked on the CHIRP ICON and Chirp loaded.
I then installed the Baofeng USB Programming Cable for Baofeng Two way Radio UV-5R, BF-888S,BF-F8+ With Driver CD to my BF-F8HP Radio.
I attempted to install the Driver CD and found it corrupted.
I thought that my windows 10 had the most up to date USB Driver and I would not need the one that came with the Programing Cable. I may have been wrong and do need a special Driver.
I than plugged the programing Cable in to the USB Port and then the Radio, turned the Radio on, started CHIRP, clicked the Radio Menu, input vendor info, started download.
Message:
Due to the fact that the manufacturer continues to release new versions of the firmware with obscure and hard-to-track changes, this driver may not work with your device. Thus far and to the best knowledge of the author, no UV-5R radios have been harmed by using CHIRP. However, proceed at your own risk!
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Typed USB in port assignment box and tried again with the following results..
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Do I need a special USB Driver?
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
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If device manager shows your cable to be a Prolific, roll your driver back to 3.2.0.0. Your cable probably has a fake chip in it and the latest drivers are designed to stop the cables from working. The older drivers work just fine.
THIS IS WHAT I FIND IN DEVICE MANAGER (Scott)
Jardy Dawson
WA7JRD Ham Radio
We keep trying to interfere with elections, but pesky moose and squirrel keep interfering!
On Oct 27, 2017, at 13:07, SCOTT PETERSON <SPETE2@VERIZON.NET mailto:SPETE2@verizon.net > wrote:
I downloaded CHIRP from the Web Site to WD 10 and after the down load was completed there was no sign of a CHIRP shortcut on my desk top.
Went to C: (x86) CHIRP and found shortcut. I dragged the shortcut to Desktop. I clicked on the CHIRP ICON and Chirp loaded.
I then installed the Baofeng USB Programming Cable for Baofeng Two way Radio UV-5R, BF-888S,BF-F8+ With Driver CD to my BF-F8HP Radio.
I attempted to install the Driver CD and found it corrupted.
I thought that my windows 10 had the most up to date USB Driver and I would not need the one that came with the Programing Cable. I may have been wrong and do need a special Driver.
I than plugged the programing Cable in to the USB Port and then the Radio, turned the Radio on, started CHIRP, clicked the Radio Menu, input vendor info, started download.
Message:
Due to the fact that the manufacturer continues to release new versions of the firmware with obscure and hard-to-track changes, this driver may not work with your device. Thus far and to the best knowledge of the author, no UV-5R radios have been harmed by using CHIRP. However, proceed at your own risk!
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Typed USB in port assignment box and tried again with the following results.
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Do I need a special USB Driver?
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
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