Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 63, Issue 8
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Don dbwjr1949@verizon.net wrote:
I have three Baofeng transceivers: UV-5RA; UV-82X; GT-3. I have been unable to program any of them and I was wondering if there are CHIRP fixes or suggestions? I've purchased two sets of programming cables and deleted Windows 8 and installed Windows 7 Pro since Windows 8 did not seem to work on any of these radios. Will wait until I hear from Chirp for my next approach.
Thank you,
Don, K3DBW
Hi Don,
There are no fixes needed. CHIRP works fine as-is for all three of these radios and with both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For the UV-82X, you must be using a daily release and not the stable release.
Your most likely issue is not having the necessary driver installed. Most programming cables purchased for the radios that you have are made with a chip inside that is an unauthorized copy of a Prolific chip. The Windows Vista/7/8 automatically installed Prolific driver is intentionally written to not work with these unauthorized chips. You either have to purchase a cable with a genuine Prolific chip, or purchase one with a chip from a different vendor (like FTDI) or downgrade to an older Prolific driver that is compatible (my recommendation).
A link for the driver and instructions for installing it are on the miklor.com website (there are lots of other help for these radios on this website, too).
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
Instructions for getting started with CHIRP are here.
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Beginners_Guide http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_CHIRP.php
73, Jim KC9HI
Don, What you are experiencing is not and issue with CHIRP, but rather your programming cable Drivers.
There is no reason to purchase a new cable. A generic cable with Win7 or Win8 will work fine, but your driver cannot be newer than Prolific 3.2.0.0 Windows will try to load the latest and greatest driver. Unfortunately, it won't be compatible.
These drivers you need are available at http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
You may want to review the USER's GUIDE and FAQ found at http://www.miklor.com/UV5R They will save you a lot of start time and frustration.
Hope this helps. Enjoy your new Toy.
John K3NXU http://www.miklor.com
From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 3:38 PM To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 63, Issue 8
I have three Baofeng transceivers: UV-5RA; UV-82X; GT-3. I have been unable to program any of them and I was wondering if there are CHIRP fixes or suggestions? I've purchased two sets of programming cables and deleted Windows 8 and installed Windows 7 Pro since Windows 8 did not seem to work on any of these radios. Will wait until I hear from Chirp for my next approach.
Thank you,
Don, K3DBW
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1. PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep (chirp. mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net cordless@xoxy.net) 2. Re: PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep (Milton Hywatt) 3. Re: PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep (Silverfox)
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:35:04 -0700 From: chirp. mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net cordless@xoxy.net Subject: [chirp_users] PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep To: chirp_users@ mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: <8DF84871-7989-4E0E-B44C-950F4B344F11@ mailto:0E-B44C-950F4B344F11@cox.net cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I know this isn't directly Chirp related, but it's the right audience, and this information needs to get widely distributed. Nobody in my local ham circles knew about it.
If you don't know what the annoying Yaesu Wires beep is, it's a Yaesu-proprietary internet access feature. It's too easy to accidentally enable on most Yaesu radios, and it injects a DTMF tone at the start of every transmission that masks the start of the audio.
It turns out there's a way to silence the beep, even if you accidentally put the radio in Wires mode. There's a well-done description of the settings changes for a dozen Yaesu models, and an explanation, at http://www.sbara.org/downloads/WIRES/ http://www.sbara.org/downloads/WIRES/ which has both online html versions and downloadable pdfs.
Hope that helps some, and apologies for the noise to the rest of you.
-dan
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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:50:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Milton Hywatt mailto:mhywattt@yahoo.com mhywattt@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@ mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com intrepid.danplanet.com> Message-ID: <1394844608.89289. mailto:8.89289.YahooMailNeo@web162601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com YahooMailNeo@web162601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Done it dozens of times on the FT60 and FT8900. Was talking to someone just the other day who had a tone when he first transmitted. I told the guy he was using a Yaesu and he was surprised that I knew. I said he had wires enabled. He found the button and shut it off. There is a way to program the radio so wires will only work if certain criteria are met and under normal operation you would never meet it either. There is no way to enable it under normal or cross band mode.
________________________________ From: "chirp. mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net cordless@xoxy.net" <chirp. mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net cordless@xoxy.net> To: chirp_users@ mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 6:35 PM Subject: [chirp_users] PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep
I know this isn't directly Chirp related, but it's the right audience, and this information needs to get widely distributed. Nobody in my local ham circles knew about it.
If you don't know what the annoying Yaesu Wires beep is, it's a Yaesu-proprietary internet access feature. It's too easy to accidentally enable on most Yaesu radios, and it injects a DTMF tone at the start of every transmission that masks the start of the audio.
It turns out there's a way to silence the beep, even if you accidentally put the radio in Wires mode. There's a well-done description of the settings changes for a dozen Yaesu models, and an explanation, at http://www.sbara.org/downloads/WIRES/ http://www.sbara.org/downloads/WIRES/ which has both online html versions and downloadable pdfs.
Hope that helps some, and apologies for the noise to the rest of you.
-dan
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