CHIRP

John,

Your radio is responding with an invalid/corrupt reply.

aa 79 00 03 06 50 dd 00

It should look something like this

aa 30 79 04 00 05 20 dd

The "aa" is the beginning of the reply
The "30" is the lower VHF band limit ([1}30 MHz)
The "79" is the upper VHF band limit ([1}79 MHz)
The "04 00" is the lower UHF band limit (400 MHz)
The "05 20" is the upper UHF band limit (520 MHz)
The "dd" is the end of the reply

Since the "dd" is not where it belongs (the 8th byte), CHIRP doesn't recognize your radio as being a valid Baofeng radio.

What I would suggest for right now would be to download the OEM VIP software to see if you can reset the band limits to the radio in the hope that it will coax the radio into returning a valid reply. The software is available "here":http://www.miklor.com/UV82/UV82-Software.php

Basically you would access the OEM software's "Other" menu, read the radio, set the band limits to as wide as the software will allow, write the new band limits back to the the radio, then try it with CHIRP again.

If this doesn't work, I will try to come up with something else.

Jim KC9HI

I finally have an understanding of what is going on here. Using one of the following band limits can cause and issue: 1, 101, 201, 301, ..., 901. Use the attached test driver to adjust the radio as a temporary fix.

1. save the attached "uv5r(3987).py" file to where you store your CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) files
2. load CHIRP
3. click "Help"
4. enable "Enable Developer Functions"
5. click "File"
6. click "Load Module"
7. locate and load the file saved in step 1

Now try to read from your radio. It should be successful. Immediately edit the band limits so that none of the ones listed above are used. After editing the band limits, upload back to the radio. Now you should be able to disable "Enable Developer Functions" then close and reopen CHIRP. You should now be able to download and upload from the radio normally.

I will try to spin up a patch that restores the ability to use the currently "must be avoided" band limits.

Jim KC9HI

A patch was submitted and accepted. The next CHIRP daily build should resolve this issue.

Jim KC9HI

Have a BF-F9V2+ (uv-82hp variant). Using latest daily. Get the following error "Failed to communicate with radio: local variable 'response' referenced before assignment" have tried enabling developer functions and loading the uv5r(3987).py file but i get a invalid syntax line 1 error. Debug.log attaached.

Jim

Per your request here is the debug.log. Read my earlier reply it should say i am now able to read and write the radio. Need to learn to proof read my replies.

Reed
AD7ZW

I don't know what happened because I tested it with at least 3 different radios. Oh, well. Anyway, a patch to correct the problem has been submitted.

I have attached the corrected driver if you want to manually load and use it until the daily build comes out.

Jim KC9HI

Patch applied, no more problems reported.