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The CHIRP config from @wayoverthere got me to where I could RX/TX again but had me stuck in VFO mode. Someone at my local ham club Slack (who I bought the KG-805G from) had a Wouxun config that I subsequently wrote to the radio. I think I'm back in business now. I'm uploading the stock KG-805G config now. I wonder if going into the KG-805G programming software from Wouxun and creating a new config and writing it to the radio would have gotten me back to working after @wayoverthere's CHIRP config - I guess we won't know. I don't really wanna chance killing this radio trying to take it through this cycle again. Thanks for the help and ideas, everyone. KG-805G stock.tw

Oh wow, mouse urine - that's probably a great conductor for shorting circuits. This KG-805G was basically in rain water - which is... pretty much distilled water? Anyway, RX/TX seems to be working - I'm thinking I'm just dealing with programming/CHIRP issues at this point

Amazing. Thanks so much! With this CHIRP image I've confirmed that the RX/TX circuitry still works. I noticed that the image according to CHIRP was for a KG-UVD1P instead of KG-816 - I guess the KG-805G is compatible with a few different Wouxun radios. I didn't know that the KG-805G can be unlocked to TX on the 70cm HAM band, interesting. What I can't figure out now is that I'm now in what seems to be VFO/frequency mode and I can't figure out how to get into channel mode. @wayoverthere - do you (or does anyone else) have any thoughts on how to get to back to the channel mode? If you flash a KG-805G with the supplied image, do you end up in VFO/frequency mode?

Thanks all. I've put the radio in ziploc bag with two big dessicant bags in front of my wood fired stove for a couple of days and it still won't receive and transmit. It was in my friend's pocket which had water leak into it and created a puddle. He didn't notice for a while and it was on while sitting in the water, exhibiting some crazy display behavior. Ah, all of these California rains we've been getting. I regret not testing transmitting/receiving before I started mucking with the programming but when I saw that someone was having RX/TX issues after CHIRP programming I figured I'd give that fix a shot. It's a bummer that the code plug from MozartMan didn't do the trick. I'll see if I can track down a working CHIRP config somewhere to cover all the bases but I'm guessing the Wouxun config would have fixed it if it was a software issue. Worst case I've got a spare battery and charger for another KG-805G.

Well well, I've got a KG-805G that's not receiving or transmitting anymore after a CHIRP slip-up. I've been playing around with CHIRP-next which is a huge improvement over the UI in my opinion. I tried to write a config to the radio with CHIRP-next and it didn't want to see the radio, so I downgraded to CHIRP-daily and tried to write the config that I had saved from CHIRP-next. After writing the config to the radio the radio started to behave strangely and revert to Chinese language and beep being on after every power cycle, and TX/RX weren't working anymore. So a word of caution with CHIRP-next. Now, if someone would be so nice as to send me a KG-805G config for CHIRP from a working radio I would love to try to flash it and see whether it fixes my unit. I've tried flashing a working config using the trashy Wouxun software and the radio still won't TX/RX. (There's a chance the TX/RX issue is from the radio getting wet which happened in parallel with the programming issues...) update: I was sent a firmware which confirms that the radio can still RX/TX, still trying to sort out some details. More over here.. . Moral of the story seems to be: Don't edit an image in CHIRP-next, save it, and then install it in CHIRP-daily.

I have been using CHIRP and it's been working OK for a few months using the KG-816 mode but I guess CHIRP-next messed up my config or something. The code plug you sent me installed fine but I still can't transmit or receive. I wonder if a config read from a working KG-805G unit using CHIRP would help restore my radio. Does anyone have experience with that or have one of these files around, or is willing to make one? I searched my computer for the old CHIRP config file but it seems to be lost or overwritten. I guess I could buy another KG-805G and pull the working CHIRP config if I can't get help from someone online. It also doesn't help that this radio got wet recently and there's a chance that the TX/RX got fried due to moisture and it's not code plug related at all.

Well, I've just been burned by this issue. I think what happened is that I edited my CHIRP config file for the KG-805G using CHIRP-Next and then CHIRP-Next did not want to recognize the KG-805G, so I tried to upload the config that was edited in CHIRP-Next using HIRPp-daily and now the radio can't transmit or receive. I emailed BTWR about this, it seems like they used to have a code plug on the product page but it seems to no longer be there. If one of you could send me the CHIRP file to fix the KG-805G it would make me extremely happy - it doesn't help that I just sold this radio to a friend and was just updating some programming for him This is not a 2 hour rabbit hole I was expecting to go down.