I have a Baofeng UV82. I connect it to my laptop with a Baofeng
USBA-Kenwood 2-pin cable. The img file I exported to CSV starts like this:
Location,Name,Frequency,Duplex,Offset,Tone,rToneFreq,cToneFreq,DtcsCode,DtcsPolarity,Mode,TStep,Skip,Comment,URCALL,RPT1CALL,RPT2CALL
5,NB5F,145.150000,-,-,0.600000,Tone,123.0,88.5,023,NN,FM,5.00,,,,,,
7,W5BSA,145.190000,-,0.600000,Tone,123.0,88.5,023,NN,FM,5.00,,,,,,
8,KD5HKQ,145.250000,-,0.600000,Tone,156.7,88.5,023,NN,FM,5.00,,,,,,
9,W5PAS,145.270000,-,0.600000,Tone,123.0,88.5,023,NN,FM,5.00,,,,,,
When I get into CHIRP, connect, open that img file, and upload to
radio, it completes with no error report. However, when I scroll
through the channels after disconnecting, I see the correct name for
each channel, but only a single frequency is shown for all 100+
channels. At the moment it happens to be the first frequency shown in
the csv file, 145.150, which is for channel 5. (Only 103 of a possible
127 channels are present in the img file.)
And here is something that, to me, is even weirder. When I first
completed the upload and disconnected, the frequency shown on all
channels was 444.550, also a frequency in the img file, but not the
last one. It is third from last. After I scrolled through and saw
that, I turned off the 82 and set it aside. When I came back to it
later and turned it on, the frequency shown for all channels had
changed to 145.15.
Huh??
I am digging around in about a dozen sites “out there” and although I
find a few CHIRP problems mentioned here and there, and a few Baofeng
problems, nothing remotely resembles this. I’ve looked at various
pages in these sites:
https://forums.radioreference.com
https://www.reddit.com
https://baofengacademy.com
https://chirpmyradio.com
https://baofengtech.com
I checked for any available firmware updates.
I got excited when I found that Baofeng had a software download for
programming the 82 but after the install, when I open the software and
try to “read from radio”, all I get are connection failures. Even
though I set for Port 4 (what CHIRP used) and it accepted that. Humph.
At this point, I am wide open for any pointer to a website, or to a
forum, or any suggestion on how to proceed. I can certainly program as
many channels as I need to manually, and in truth there’s only three
or four that I routinely monitor around Houston, so that’s easy. But I
surely would love to know how to get that frequency list into that radio.
Any comment gratefully received.
Thanks.
Rick Wannall
KG5ITH
Houston
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