Extreme Posted February 1, 2021 Report Posted February 1, 2021 Yup, did a search. A couple quick questions please. Opened my big mouth and offered to program a buddies HTs. Baofeng UV-5R. Downloaded Chirp but not sure if I have the correct cable.I have a PC03P for WouxunOriginal Red Wouxun KPG-22 Kenwood 3170 FTDI that also works with Retevis 76P. Steer me straight please. First time attempt at Chirp as well so searching that how to. Have to .pdf manual for the BF but keypad programming ain't much fun. Thanks, as always. Quote
0 jsouth Posted February 1, 2021 Report Posted February 1, 2021 I use the red wouxun cable to program my UV-82s all the time, with Chirp. I used the same cable to program My Retevis RT76P as well. Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 1, 2021 Author Report Posted February 1, 2021 Hmmm Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 jc1240 Posted February 1, 2021 Report Posted February 1, 2021 Josh from Ham Radio Crash Course recommends this cable. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HUB0ONK?ref=exp_hamradiocrashcourse_dp_vv_d Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 1, 2021 Author Report Posted February 1, 2021 I use the red wouxun cable to program my UV-82s all the time, with Chirp. I used the same cable to program My Retevis RT76P as well. The red one worked for download from radio (but only after I did a factory reset on the HT) but after entering channel list (copy/paste) and performing upload to radio get the same messaage "Radio did not respond". Tried reboot of laptop again, cycled thru the process repeatedly and same no response. Quote
0 jsouth Posted February 1, 2021 Report Posted February 1, 2021 Do you have a good driver for the cable and select the correct port? AdmiralCochrane 1 Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 Got it to work somewhat for one but have to restart computer every time to upload and/or dl. Only way to have text for rptr ID is via software. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 Do you have a good driver for the cable and select the correct port I have an FTDI cable on the way so should have the driver built in I expect. Links to firmware updates got me nowhere. Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 Even when edited and manage to get it to write to the 5R it won't hold the RX CTCSS settings. Manually entered as well with same result. Saving to Ch. Mem on keypad screen and just defaults back to RX CTCSS "OFF". TX CTCSS holds just fine. Quote
0 wayoverthere Posted February 2, 2021 Report Posted February 2, 2021 Shot in the dark running off of memory at the moment (since I'm not at the computer), so I don't have the specific names at hand... i want to say it's the "tone setting" column that allows setting for for mixed tone types... For this situation I want to say that has to be "tone -> tone" to accept tones on both tx and rx...I think if it's set to "tone -> ", it won't store the RX tone. Chirp does do a bit of trying to outthink you sometimes... Extreme 1 Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 Thanks. I'll look it over when my new BF specific cable shows up. Somehow my FTDI Kenwood took a dump playing with BF. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 And try to eliminate weather channels from Scan. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 Shot in the dark running off of memory at the moment (since I'm not at the computer), so I don't have the specific names at hand... i want to say it's the "tone setting" column that allows setting for for mixed tone types... For this situation I want to say that has to be "tone -> tone" to accept tones on both tx and rx...I think if it's set to "tone -> ", it won't store the RX tone. Chirp does do a bit of trying to outthink you sometimes...It don't take much to outthink me!Offsets and + was the problem. Have to enter individual channels.Still nothing on killing weather SCAN so might eliminate those. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 It don't take much to outthink me!Offsets and + was the problem. Have to enter individual channels.Still nothing on killing weather SCAN so might eliminate those. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk..and thanks! Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk wayoverthere 1 Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Posted February 2, 2021 The 88.5 is default. Won't go to "OFF" with software but can be done manually.These settings got repeaters up and running. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 piglet Posted February 3, 2021 Report Posted February 3, 2021 Still nothing on killing weather SCAN so might eliminate those. Did you click on the 'Show Empty' button and put an S under the Skip column on the rows for channels you wanted to skip in the scanning mode? Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 3, 2021 Author Report Posted February 3, 2021 Nope. I'll get on that. Thanks! Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
0 wayoverthere Posted February 3, 2021 Report Posted February 3, 2021 The 88.5 is default. Won't go to "OFF" with software but can be done manually.These settings got repeaters up and running. Sent from my Pixel 4a using TapatalkBoomer, thanks for covering the "skip" setting. this is the best page i've found to walk through the chirp columns (though there's the 'outthinking' sometimes...): https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MemoryEditorColumns If the 'tone mode' column is (none), it should ignore that default 88.5 and show as "off" in the radio. from what you described (same tone in/out), it looks like the tone mode setting you want is "tsql", and it should put whatever tone is in the 'tsql' column for both rx and tx. offsets, you can do a couple ways (and it seems to work better to set the duplex mode column first, if i remember right); most gmrs use will be set that to "+", and 5.0000 for the offset. if you're doing something oddball, you can set duplex mode to "split" and enter the desired transmit frequency in the 'offset' column (i use the "split" setting on the local public safety channel so i can listen while preventing an accidental key-up from causing interference...i offset the transmit into the FRS band somewhere) (let me know if i can clarify...long day and lack of sleep has my mental processing running a little slow) Extreme 1 Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 3, 2021 Author Report Posted February 3, 2021 Very helpful. I got it done finally. My biggest problem is getting the radio to communicate with the software for read/write. Lots of fooling around with sequence of connecting and powering up.. very sporadic whether it will connect. With luck my new Baofang dedicated cable will resolve this for next time. Quote
0 wayoverthere Posted February 3, 2021 Report Posted February 3, 2021 Very helpful. I got it done finally. My biggest problem is getting the radio to communicate with the software for read/write. Lots of fooling around with sequence of connecting and powering up.. very sporadic whether it will connect. With luck my new Baofang dedicated cable will resolve this for next time.I suspect so...mine have been fairly forgiving with both windows and Linux versions of chirp Extreme 1 Quote
0 AdmiralCochrane Posted February 4, 2021 Report Posted February 4, 2021 Its often a matter of the computer com ports available and the particular com port the cable software driver is trying to use. Some software lets you select any port number, others only connect to a few or possibly only one particular com port. If that port is in use by some other software on your computer, you must move that connection to a different software access port to free it up for the driver to use Quote
0 Extreme Posted February 4, 2021 Author Report Posted February 4, 2021 Port was matched correctly. Got a BF dedicated cable today but delivered the radios back to the owner so can't test. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Quote
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Yup, did a search. A couple quick questions please.
Opened my big mouth and offered to program a buddies HTs. Baofeng UV-5R.
Downloaded Chirp but not sure if I have the correct cable.
I have a
PC03P for Wouxun
Original Red Wouxun
KPG-22 Kenwood 3170 FTDI that also works with Retevis 76P.
Steer me straight please.
First time attempt at Chirp as well so searching that how to. Have to .pdf manual for the BF but keypad programming ain't much fun.
Thanks, as always.
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