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System MAC OS X ver 10.11.1
Chirp Daily 20160309

I seem to be having the same issue. Just purchased the UV-82HP on Amazon via BoaFeng Tech it has firmware N82-33 / US2S35. I also purchased a USB programming cable that stated it was by Baofeng sold by Amazon (box also says mfg by Baofeng designed by SainSonic). The box also says that it is a UV-5R programming cable with a mfg date of 2015.11.14.

When I try to download the radio I get the message "Radio refused to send block 0x1ec0". So I pulled out my old Kenwood serial cable that has a Prolific USB to serial adapter. When I plugged it in and selected the correct port I was able to immediately download the radio contents. When I look in system preferences at the two USB devices they are the same prolific product/vendor id and they are both using driver version 2.0.

This cable cost about $6.25 where as I found another one today with an FTDI chip that says genuine that was around $20.

Thanks
David

Okay.. so I bought the FTDI cable and now I have no issues

Wait a minute... I have and always had the FTDI programming cable! Got it from Baofeng Tech for $20...

Do the FTDI cables need to be updated or something? Every few years, do I need to buy a new one to match the new radios?

I'd like to get some help on this, I got another 4 UV-82 radios coming my way (being the comm officer for this group) in a few days, and I would like to know if I can read those radios or not.

-OP Welch

I went though the FTDI website and downloaded the latest and greatest drivers (2.12.14) that was produced just last month (the last one was 2 years old). The update installed fine, but this UV-82HP still doesn't want to clone to my computer. I even uninstalled then reinstalled the drivers, still doesn't connect. Still getting the "Radio refused to send block 0x1ec0" error message.

"0x1ec0" is the start of the "aux" block of memory. That means the "main" block of memory was received successfully. It could be your radio doesn't support sending this section of memory. The UV-B5/B6 radios with 27 menus no longer support sending the "service settings" block of memory. I would recommend that you contact Baofeng Tech.

Jim

I did that, and after about 10 emails, they said to "hold the connection down while cloning."

Guess what? It worked! Maybe add to the SOPs that sometimes the connection in the radio might be a millimeter too low, and you need to tightly grip the radio and the cable connection to push in the pins that fraction of a bit more, right as you click "read."

I'm good! Thanks!