[chirp_users] BAOFENG DRIVER
I spent two weeks trying to find a driver for my Baofeng BF-F9 V2+. I determined that I had to use one for BF-F8hp. I was lucky enough to find one. Chirp worked great. My Computer crashed and I have not been able to find a working driver since. I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Any help will be appreciated.
Carl Payne
payneconsultant@bellsouth.net
win7 64bit seemed to give me fits, i kept getting "radio failed to send xxxx" ran chirp in compatibility mode for winxp sp3, been a programing monkey ever since On May 10, 2015 5:10 PM, "Carl Payne" payneconsultant@bellsouth.net wrote:
I spent two weeks trying to find a driver for my Baofeng BF-F9 V2+. I determined that I had to use one for BF-F8hp. I was lucky enough to find one. Chirp worked great. My Computer crashed and I have not been able to find a working driver since. I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Any help will be appreciated.
Carl Payne
payneconsultant@bellsouth.net
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I purchased my UV-5R at Dayton and bought the USB02 cable from R&L. I have been using the chirp-daily-20140428-installer and Win_Driver_Prolific_3.2.0.0 since. Have been using it with XP, Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit. Seems like I had to do several of the plug in the usb and unplug and windoze searched for drivers and well typical windoze ... there is no certain 1, 2, 3 , ... steps to follow. But is is working. Just takes some perseverance. Ham radio is all about perseverance.
Grayg KC8STV
win7 64bit seemed to give me fits, i kept getting "radio failed to send xxxx" ran chirp in compatibility mode for winxp sp3, been a programing monkey ever since On May 10, 2015 5:10 PM, "Carl Payne" payneconsultant@bellsouth.net wrote:
I spent two weeks trying to find a driver for my Baofeng BF-F9 V2+. I determined that I had to use one for BF-F8hp. I was lucky enough to find one. Chirp worked great. My Computer crashed and I have not been able to find a working driver since. I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Any help will be appreciated.
Carl Payne
payneconsultant@bellsouth.net
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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Carl Payne payneconsultant@bellsouth.net wrote:
I spent two weeks trying to find a driver for my Baofeng BF-F9 V2+. I determined that I had to use one for BF-F8hp. I was lucky enough to find one. Chirp worked great. My Computer crashed and I have not been able to find a working driver since. I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Any help will be appreciated.
Carl Payne
Hi Carl,
There are no device drivers for either the BF-F9 V2+ or the BF-F8HP. Neither radio requires one.
Any device drivers that would be required, would be required only by the USB style programming cable. Any programming cable that would plug directly into a legacy serial port would not require a device driver, either.
The device driver works in conjunction with the USB-to-TTL chip in the USB programming cable to create a virtual serial port.
Many of the lower cost USB programming cable have an unauthorized copy of a Prolific type chip in them. When Windows detects a "Prolific" type chip, it installs the latest device driver written by Prolific Technology Inc. (the company that makes the genuine Prolific chip). This device driver is intentionally written to be incompatible with the unauthorized copies.
In order to use a programming cables containing an unauthorized chip copy, the Prolific device driver needs to be downgraded to an older, compatible device driver, v3.2.0.0. The miklor.com website has a link to the compatible device driver and instructions for how to install/select it.
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
Jim KC9HI
Hi - looking for definitions of the 'Settings' fields, i.e.
There is a definition page in the WIKI for the channel columns which is not what I am looking for.
thanks, grayg - KC8SVT
The channel columns are the settings. The WIKI explains what they mean.
What exactly are you looking for.
David N1EA On May 10, 2015 11:31 PM, "Grayg Ralphsnyder" wgrayg@mountain.net wrote:
Hi - looking for definitions of the 'Settings' fields, i.e.
There is a definition page in the WIKI for the channel columns which is not what I am looking for.
thanks, grayg - KC8SVT
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In CHIRP there there is a tab of MEMORIES settings and there is a tab of SETTINGS. The MEMORIES tab is the columnar data of Location, Frequency, Name, Tone Mode, .... etc... ON the SETTINGS tab there is Carrier Squelch Level, Battery Saver, Backlight Timeout, etc. I want to know about this SETTINGS tab. I am using chirp-daily-20140428-installer .
thanks, grayg - KC8SVT
The channel columns are the settings. The WIKI explains what they mean.
What exactly are you looking for.
David N1EA On May 10, 2015 11:31 PM, "Grayg Ralphsnyder" wgrayg@mountain.net wrote:
Hi - looking for definitions of the 'Settings' fields, i.e.
There is a definition page in the WIKI for the channel columns which is not what I am looking for.
thanks, grayg - KC8SVT
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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Grayg Ralphsnyder wgrayg@mountain.net wrote:
In CHIRP there there is a tab of MEMORIES settings and there is a tab of SETTINGS. The MEMORIES tab is the columnar data of Location, Frequency, Name, Tone Mode, .... etc... ON the SETTINGS tab there is Carrier Squelch Level, Battery Saver, Backlight Timeout, etc. I want to know about this SETTINGS tab. I am using chirp-daily-20140428-installer .
In Chirp, the memory tab is common for all radios. The settings tab is specific to each model of radio. (This is why you can't copy/paste/import/export settings.) For the most part, we use the same name for each of the settings as the manufacturer uses in their documentation. The manual for your radio should describe these features with the same terminology. So, look through your manual to find a description of the Battery Saver feature.
Tom KD7LXL
I had this same question but disagree with the manual suggestion in the case of Baeofung. Even they tell you CHIRP is preferred over their stuff right on the website!
As a new HAM operator all the terminology and technology focused language is not easy to absorb but you need to know all that Greek just get a basic radio setup so you can use it and gain experience. I think a good technical writer could really help the CHIRP documentation to be newbie friendly. That's not me :)
Anyways I had stumbled across a page somewhere on the interweb in the last week that described all the settings and I had meant to save it so I could use it as a reference but now I cannot find it. If anyone knows of the resource, please share!
Thank you, Nick KK6TYY
__ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __ Nick Nudell, MS, NRP (760) 405-6869 https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?orderid=12297398415473197292.C.1422058108973241#phones medicnick@gmail.com
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Tom Hayward tom@tomh.us wrote:
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Grayg Ralphsnyder wgrayg@mountain.net wrote:
In CHIRP there there is a tab of MEMORIES settings and there is a tab of SETTINGS. The MEMORIES tab is the columnar data of Location, Frequency, Name, Tone Mode, .... etc... ON the SETTINGS tab there is Carrier Squelch Level, Battery Saver, Backlight Timeout, etc. I want to know about this SETTINGS tab. I am using chirp-daily-20140428-installer .
In Chirp, the memory tab is common for all radios. The settings tab is specific to each model of radio. (This is why you can't copy/paste/import/export settings.) For the most part, we use the same name for each of the settings as the manufacturer uses in their documentation. The manual for your radio should describe these features with the same terminology. So, look through your manual to find a description of the Battery Saver feature.
Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________
Thanks John! I have and used it to get started. That page makes it sound so simple to program a radio but in actual practice there is much more to it.
To be clear, I am not registering a complaint here. I greatly appreciate the software and its many capabilities (that I would like to know how to use). It should be taken as a suggestion for an area for improvement from the new user perspective.
Cheers, Nick KK6TYY
__ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __ Nick Nudell, MS, NRP (760) 405-6869 https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?orderid=12297398415473197292.C.1422058108973241#phones medicnick@gmail.com
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:39 PM, John Rice johnr@k9ij.net wrote:
Nick,
Take a look at the WiKi if you haven't already..
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Wiki
Good luck John - K9IJ
Nick Nudell medicnick@gmail.com Monday, May 11, 2015 3:35 PM I had this same question but disagree with the manual suggestion in the case of Baeofung. Even they tell you CHIRP is preferred over their stuff right on the website!
As a new HAM operator all the terminology and technology focused language is not easy to absorb but you need to know all that Greek just get a basic radio setup so you can use it and gain experience. I think a good technical writer could really help the CHIRP documentation to be newbie friendly. That's not me :)
Anyways I had stumbled across a page somewhere on the interweb in the last week that described all the settings and I had meant to save it so I could use it as a reference but now I cannot find it. If anyone knows of the resource, please share!
Thank you, Nick KK6TYY
Nick Nudell, MS, NRP (760) 405-6869 https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?orderid=12297398415473197292.C.1422058108973241#phones medicnick@gmail.com
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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Nick Nudell medicnick@gmail.com wrote:
I had this same question but disagree with the manual suggestion in the case of Baeofung. Even they tell you CHIRP is preferred over their stuff right on the website!
This is incorrect. You are confusing Baofeng (the manufacturer of Baofeng radios based in China) with Baofeng Tech (the seller of Baofeng radios based in the USA). They are not the same.
Baofeng (the manufacturer of Baofeng radios) does something about every other month that breaks CHIRP support for their radios. If Baofeng wanted their end users to use CHIRP, they would be more careful about the changes they make and what effects those changes would have on CHIRP.
As a new HAM operator all the terminology and technology focused language is not easy to absorb but you need to know all that Greek just get a basic radio setup so you can use it and gain experience. I think a good technical writer could really help the CHIRP documentation to be newbie friendly. That's not me :)
Anyways I had stumbled across a page somewhere on the interweb in the last week that described all the settings and I had meant to save it so I could use it as a reference but now I cannot find it. If anyone knows of the resource, please share!
I assume that you are looking for the file that I have attached.
Thank you, Nick KK6TYY
Nick Nudell, MS, NRP (760) 405-6869 medicnick@gmail.com
Jim KC9HI
Thanks for the clarification on BF and for the file! That will be very helpful to get me started in using these cheapos without doing too many stupid things!
Take care, Nick KK6TYY
__ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __ Nick Nudell, MS, NRP (760) 405-6869 https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?orderid=12297398415473197292.C.1422058108973241#phones medicnick@gmail.com
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Nick Nudell medicnick@gmail.com wrote:
I had this same question but disagree with the manual suggestion in the
case
of Baeofung. Even they tell you CHIRP is preferred over their stuff
right on
the website!
This is incorrect. You are confusing Baofeng (the manufacturer of Baofeng radios based in China) with Baofeng Tech (the seller of Baofeng radios based in the USA). They are not the same.
Baofeng (the manufacturer of Baofeng radios) does something about every other month that breaks CHIRP support for their radios. If Baofeng wanted their end users to use CHIRP, they would be more careful about the changes they make and what effects those changes would have on CHIRP.
As a new HAM operator all the terminology and technology focused
language is
not easy to absorb but you need to know all that Greek just get a basic radio setup so you can use it and gain experience. I think a good
technical
writer could really help the CHIRP documentation to be newbie friendly. That's not me :)
Anyways I had stumbled across a page somewhere on the interweb in the
last
week that described all the settings and I had meant to save it so I
could
use it as a reference but now I cannot find it. If anyone knows of the resource, please share!
I assume that you are looking for the file that I have attached.
Thank you, Nick KK6TYY
Nick Nudell, MS, NRP (760) 405-6869 medicnick@gmail.com
Jim KC9HI
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