Hi All, I’ve been watching this page in amazement. For pretty much volunteer work, great job. I try and read all the posts regarding the UV-5R, own 2, have no trouble with them. A club member asked me to program his, the version comes up as USA349, and I have had no success getting access to it with the program. Always says it can’t communicate with the radio. Have tried all the connector suggestions. Any thoughts? It does accept keypad input.
JD
JD
The firmware version USA349 indicates that the unit is not a UV5R, but rather a Baofeng F-11.
The F-11 is basically a UV5R with slightly different firmware.
CHIRP does support the F-11, but it needs to be selected in the model dropdown.
See: http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/FAQ
QA #2 (Firmware Link)
Hope this helps. John K3NXU
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Hi All,
I’ve been watching this page in amazement. For pretty much volunteer work, great job. I try and read all the posts regarding the UV-5R, own 2, have no trouble with them. A club member asked me to program his, the version comes up as USA349, and I have had no success getting access to it with the program. Always says it can’t communicate with the radio. Have tried all the connector suggestions. Any thoughts? It does accept keypad input.
JD
USA349 firmware is the Baofeng F-11. Try using that radio to
download from in Chirp. I own one myself and really the only practical difference from the UV5R is the firmare and the Badge. Mine is badged F-11 though and I'm under the impression that the radio you are trying to read from says UV5R but has the same firmware as the F-11? Have a look here: http://www.wouxun.us/category.php?category_id=60
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Hi All, I’ve been watching this page in amazement. For pretty much volunteer work, great job. I try and read all the posts regarding the UV-5R, own 2, have no trouble with them. A club member asked me to program his, the version comes up as USA349, and I have had no success getting access to it with the program. Always says it can’t communicate with the radio. Have tried all the connector suggestions. Any thoughts? It does accept keypad input. JD _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Gents, Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll let you know the results! JD
From: Milton Hywatt Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 7:46 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R
USA349 firmware is the Baofeng F-11. Try using that radio to
download from in Chirp. I own one myself and really the only practical difference from the UV5R is the firmare and the Badge. Mine is badged F-11 though and I'm under the impression that the radio you are trying to read from says UV5R but has the same firmware as the F-11? Have a look here: http://www.wouxun.us/category.php?category_id=60
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Hi All, I’ve been watching this page in amazement. For pretty much volunteer work, great job. I try and read all the posts regarding the UV-5R, own 2, have no trouble with them. A club member asked me to program his, the version comes up as USA349, and I have had no success getting access to it with the program. Always says it can’t communicate with the radio. Have tried all the connector suggestions. Any thoughts? It does accept keypad input.
JD
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You 2 nailed it as I expected. It is an F-11. Loaded fine. Did I miss something that there is an easy way to figure out the versions? It was fairly obvious as long as BFB (etc.) showed but the USA threw me. I do not often refer to Miklor. Maybe I should more often...
Appreciate the guidance, 73’s JD
From: Milton Hywatt Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 7:46 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-5R
USA349 firmware is the Baofeng F-11. Try using that radio to
download from in Chirp. I own one myself and really the only practical difference from the UV5R is the firmare and the Badge. Mine is badged F-11 though and I'm under the impression that the radio you are trying to read from says UV5R but has the same firmware as the F-11? Have a look here: http://www.wouxun.us/category.php?category_id=60
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JD Morrow ngauge75@verizon.net To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 7:32 PM Subject: [chirp_users] UV-5R
Hi All, I’ve been watching this page in amazement. For pretty much volunteer work, great job. I try and read all the posts regarding the UV-5R, own 2, have no trouble with them. A club member asked me to program his, the version comes up as USA349, and I have had no success getting access to it with the program. Always says it can’t communicate with the radio. Have tried all the connector suggestions. Any thoughts? It does accept keypad input.
JD
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I am trying to import a file to a kenwood radio. I first exported file from UV-5r
I must be doing something wrong, cannot get it to work.
Suggestions please.
Jack
W4GRJ
What I do in these cases is to export a file from the radio that I'm trying to program. Then I open the file from the "donor" radio. I then copy all the data on the Donor tab, open the receiver radio tab and paste in the data and then send it to the radio.
As an alternative method, you can save a csv file of the donor data and import that into the receiver table...
The key seems to be that each radio (sometimes this even extends to the actual physical radio) stores identification data in the file, and won't accept a file with different ID data...
Bob M0TMT London, UK
On 23/09/2013 16:01, w4grj wrote:
I am trying to import a file to a kenwood radio. I first exported file from UV-5r
I must be doing something wrong, cannot get it to work.
Suggestions please.
Jack
W4GRJ
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Bob...thanks. That worked. Jack W4GRJ
On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:29, Bob Aldridge Bob@Stereoscopy.net wrote:
What I do in these cases is to export a file from the radio that I'm trying to program. Then I open the file from the "donor" radio. I then copy all the data on the Donor tab, open the receiver radio tab and paste in the data and then send it to the radio.
As an alternative method, you can save a csv file of the donor data and import that into the receiver table...
The key seems to be that each radio (sometimes this even extends to the actual physical radio) stores identification data in the file, and won't accept a file with different ID data...
Bob M0TMT London, UK
On 23/09/2013 16:01, w4grj wrote: I am trying to import a file to a kenwood radio. I first exported file from UV-5r I must be doing something wrong, cannot get it to work. Suggestions please.
Jack W4GRJ
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Most people want to do their clones in one fell swoop. There are certain things you just have to do in individual| rows and this isn't exclusive to Chirp. Cross brand export and import can be tricky until you spend the time to find out what works. Just don't give up because there are others out here that probably have the correct answer. If you are going to use CSV you don't want to use Excel. It adds garbage into the row info. Download LibreOffice. I use it in Linux and it makes good CSV files.
________________________________ From: W4GRJ w4grj@satterfield.org To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Importing file from different radio
Bob...thanks. That worked. Jack W4GRJ
On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:29, Bob Aldridge Bob@Stereoscopy.net wrote:
What I do in these cases is to export a file from the radio that I'm trying to program. Then I open the file from the "donor" radio. I then copy all the data on the Donor tab, open the receiver radio tab and paste in the data and then send it to the radio.
As an alternative method, you can save a csv file of the donor data and import that into the receiver table...
The key seems to be that each radio (sometimes this even extends to the actual physical radio) stores identification data in the file, and won't accept a file with different ID data...
Bob M0TMT London, UK
On 23/09/2013 16:01, w4grj wrote:
I am trying to import a file to a kenwood radio. I first exported file from UV-5r I must be doing something wrong, cannot get it to work. Suggestions please. Jack W4GRJ
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In addition to running on Linux, LibreOffice also runs on Mac & Windows. http://www.libreoffice.org/download
For Mac users, I can also recommend a great text editor; TextWrangler - and it is FREE! TextWrangler is great because it doesn't even do formatting (no bold, fonts, etc) and it certainly doesn't steal commas nor add garbage into the file. So it is great for editing CSV or tab delimited text files without hurting them. http://barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Best, Dave Nathanson KG6ZJO
On Sep 23, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Milton Hywatt mhywattt@yahoo.com wrote:
Most people want to do their clones in one fell swoop. There are certain things you just have to do in individual| rows and this isn't exclusive to Chirp. Cross brand export and import can be tricky until you spend the time to find out what works. Just don't give up because there are others out here that probably have the correct answer. If you are going to use CSV you don't want to use Excel. It adds garbage into the row info. Download LibreOffice. I use it in Linux and it makes good CSV files.
From: W4GRJ w4grj@satterfield.org To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Importing file from different radio
Bob...thanks. That worked. Jack W4GRJ
On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:29, Bob Aldridge Bob@Stereoscopy.net wrote:
What I do in these cases is to export a file from the radio that I'm trying to program. Then I open the file from the "donor" radio. I then copy all the data on the Donor tab, open the receiver radio tab and paste in the data and then send it to the radio.
As an alternative method, you can save a csv file of the donor data and import that into the receiver table...
The key seems to be that each radio (sometimes this even extends to the actual physical radio) stores identification data in the file, and won't accept a file with different ID data...
Bob M0TMT London, UK
Agreed. Also Bob's method.
DR On Sep 23, 2013 9:48 PM, "Milton Hywatt" mhywattt@yahoo.com wrote:
Most people want to do their clones in one fell swoop. There are certain things you just have to do in individual| rows and this isn't exclusive to Chirp. Cross brand export and import can be tricky until you spend the time to find out what works. Just don't give up because there are others out here that probably have the correct answer. If you are going to use CSV you don't want to use Excel. It adds garbage into the row info. Download LibreOffice. I use it in Linux and it makes good CSV files.
*From:* W4GRJ w4grj@satterfield.org *To:* Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2013 9:13 PM *Subject:* Re: [chirp_users] Importing file from different radio
Bob...thanks. That worked. Jack W4GRJ
On Sep 23, 2013, at 11:29, Bob Aldridge Bob@Stereoscopy.net wrote:
What I do in these cases is to export a file from the radio that I'm trying to program. Then I open the file from the "donor" radio. I then copy all the data on the Donor tab, open the receiver radio tab and paste in the data and then send it to the radio.
As an alternative method, you can save a csv file of the donor data and import that into the receiver table...
The key seems to be that each radio (sometimes this even extends to the actual physical radio) stores identification data in the file, and won't accept a file with different ID data...
Bob M0TMT London, UK
On 23/09/2013 16:01, w4grj wrote:
I am trying to import a file to a kenwood radio. I first exported file from UV-5r I must be doing something wrong, cannot get it to work. Suggestions please.
Jack W4GRJ
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I think you have to export to CSV and then import it into a file you downloaded from the second radio.
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On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:01 AM, "w4grj" w4grj@satterfield.org wrote:
I am trying to import a file to a kenwood radio. I first exported file from UV-5r I must be doing something wrong, cannot get it to work. Suggestions please.
Jack W4GRJ
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I think you have to export to CSV and then import it into a file you downloaded from the second radio.
No, you can import from any supported file type.
Jack, we need to see the error you're getting and the exact steps you're doing to even begin to help. "Cannot get it to work" isn't a lot to go on :)
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