Posted: 12/23/2012 7:06:29 PM EDT
| I just got another UV-5R as a Christmas present and am now having trouble programming it. I can program my old one just fine with both CHIRP and the Baofeng software. I can get the new one to download to CHIRP, but cannot get it to upload new content. It will not do either with the Baofeng software. It says it cannot communicate with the tranceiver. I've checked and rechecked and I'm sure I have the COM port set right. Does anyone know any reason that one will program and the other will not? |
| Try cloning the new radio, opening up the image you want to use, copying all of the channels over to the cloned (at this point unsaved) channel sheet and then uploading it to the radio. Should work. Sounds like your other radio(s) use the older firmware and your new one uses the 2012 and later firmware. All of this is done in chirp btw. |
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Mine arrived today from amazon. Have not yet received the USB programming cable. This thing is tiny! I got mine on 12/27/12. The only other HT that I own is a Alinco DJ-180 and It's barely bigger that the Alinco minus the battery pack. I got a programming cable with it and it doesn't like my Dell. It will not install and programming it by the keypad is "counter intuitive". 
And that putting it nicely. Vulcan94 |
| Go to miklor.com and you'll find an explanation about the chips in the programming cables and which driver you need to make them work correctly. Its just a slightly older driver thats free from the original chip manufacturer. |
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Go to miklor.com and you'll find an explanation about the chips in the programming cables and which driver you need to make them work correctly. Its just a slightly older driver thats free from the original chip manufacturer. ^^^^^^^^ This. I had a tough time at first getting everything to communicate, but once you get the right software, drivers, and comm port, you are in business. |
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Go to miklor.com and you'll find an explanation about the chips in the programming cables and which driver you need to make them work correctly. Its just a slightly older driver thats free from the original chip manufacturer. ^^^^^^^^ This. I had a tough time at first getting everything to communicate, but once you get the right software, drivers, and comm port, you are in business. I went to that site and download the recommended file. Wish me luck! Vulcan94 |
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That sure does make it easier to program. Using the keypad was a pain in the, well you know. 
These radios are really designed and type approved for LMR use, despite amateurs being mostly who are buying them. LMR radios are not allowed to be readily keyboard programmable for type acceptance. They're skirting the line with what they have now which IIRC is a code you enter to get into programming mode. In any event they are designed to be programmed via computer. |
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just got the same radio too
but ive never programmed one so it looks confusing waiting on usb cord only want to program in important things like local repeaters and keep it only for emergencies to communicate with friends use the frs channels when in range I have huge lists of local repeaters and get some chatter on some of them so at least I know it can receive I have an old scanner that I can pick up police and fire with it using trunk or something cant remember programmed it a couple years ago so thats good to have too as this little radio doesnt get those frequencies |
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got a question on programming
so I have a repeater frequency that has a - after it next is a pl which is 100 so from a video I saw on you tube how to manually program it I go into frequency mode type in the frequency then in menu select #25 sft-d I select - then in menu #13 T-CTCS??? Im hoping thats the correct menu number so I select 100 since thats the pl exit menu push * and I get 2 different frequencies which seems correct one is for transmit and one is to receive of course I have no idea if that is correct then I set the memory channel, exit and push * and reset memory channel I guess that remembers both thats the only thing I could figure from the you tube video I saw does this seem correct only place I was confused on was menu #13 or if I missed any steps was using this page too http://www.w4qr.org/files/repeater-basics_jon-perelstein.pdf had no luck my friend has same radio too and he is closer to the repeater and I could not pick up anything on my scanner so I must have something programmed wrong |
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got a question on programming http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_22/662225_Guide_me_through_programming_a_repeater_into.html&page=1#i11310699 See if that info helps, it's a different radio but the information is the same. |
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I have never been so aggrevated with a radio. The owners manual just plain sucks Miklor's website is the best place to find info programming them. It's easy once you get the hang of it and don't forget about the extra step involved (since the TX freq doesn't program in with the RX freq when your dealing with repeaters) but it's still far easier to program through chirp. |