On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 8:14 PM John Ulrich shamrockrabbit@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I haven’t used my UV-5R or the old PC used for it’s programming in some time. I decided to download CHIRP to my Windows 10 PC and bring the UV-5R back to life. After connection, CHIRP asks you to fill in the empty box with a port number. I thought it would be something like Com3 or Com4. Nope. I get error message 3, saying no such location. I’m sure this is a newbie issue but I can’t find a solution. Anything to do with Windows 10?

Thanks, John W6LRM

You don't have a properly working programming cable hooked up. The setup is probably lacking a compatible device driver. It is the chip in the programming cable paired with the device driver installed in Windows that creates the virtual COM port that CHIRP need to have available to be able to program your radio.

If your programming cable was manufactured with a Prolific type UART chip, then you should take time to read this page.

http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php

Jim KC9HI

Use the correct ”FTDI” programming cable, they're only about $16 on Amazon from either Baofeng or Btech. The cheaper cables don't have a legitimate FTDI chip and have a separate driver disk which typically contains spyware and usually they don't work half the time anyway...

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 5:14 PM John Ulrich shamrockrabbit@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I haven’t used my UV-5R or the old PC used for it’s programming in some time. I decided to download CHIRP to my Windows 10 PC and bring the UV-5R back to life. After connection, CHIRP asks you to fill in the empty box with a port number. I thought it would be something like Com3 or Com4. Nope. I get error message 3, saying no such location. I’m sure this is a newbie issue but I can’t find a solution. Anything to do with Windows 10?

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Use Device Manager to check if your cable shows up under Ports. If it does, it will say which Comm Port to use. Then check under Driver. This will tell you if you have a FTDI cable or a Prolific cable, and what driver version is loaded. Unfortunately, most Prolific cables actually have a fake Prolific chip in them. The cables work just fine if you roll back your driver to 3.2.0.0. More info can be found at www.miklor.com under drivers.

This web site is a very good reference to the Baofeng radios a a bunch of others, too. Spend some time on the website to learn all kinds of things when it comes to radios. You do not need to buy a FTDI cable if you know what to do with a Prolific cable.

Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies using the Universal Translator.

On Jun 28, 2019, at 17:12, John Ulrich shamrockrabbit@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I haven’t used my UV-5R or the old PC used for it’s programming in some time. I decided to download CHIRP to my Windows 10 PC and bring the UV-5R back to life. After connection, CHIRP asks you to fill in the empty box with a port number. I thought it would be something like Com3 or Com4. Nope. I get error message 3, saying no such location. I’m sure this is a newbie issue but I can’t find a solution. Anything to do with Windows 10?

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