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Thanks for the advice Donald.
Bob AA1HM

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 08:21 AM, Bob AA1HM wrote:

Looking for advice on how to get CHIRP to work with my MacBook and UV-S9Plus. I’ve reviewed a number of YouTube videos but everyone is using Windows. The displayed “upload to Baofeng” remains an inactive prompt. The online CHIRP directions are not working for my hardware/software.

thanks for any help

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This is because you are trying to upload a file that is not radio-specific. Perhaps a CSV file. Only radio specific files can be directly be upload back to the specific type of radio that was used to create it.

You simply download from your UV-S9Plus to create a radio-specific tab. Save the tab to a CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) tab as a backup. Then copy-and-paste the memory rows from your 'generic' tab to the radio-specific tab. Edit any global settings that you want changes. Finally upload the UV-S9Plus tab back to the radio.

Jim KC9HI

Bob . . .


On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 04:12:19 -0800, "Bob AA1HM" <bobzahn65@...> wrote:

Looking for advice on how to get CHIRP to work with my MacBook and UV-S9Plus. I’ve reviewed a number of YouTube videos but everyone is using Windows. The displayed “upload to Baofeng” remains an inactive prompt. The online CHIRP directions are not working for my hardware/software.

thanks for any help

I am not a MAC user, but I have no issues with the OS other than what some call
the "Apple Tax" (higher cost for otherwise similar to PC hardware). It's a great
OS and I think they just didn't market it well when Microsoft was bringing
Windows to market, so Windows became the dominant OS, followed by MAC OS, then
Linux.

I know in Linux I can use WINE to allow me to run my Windows email program Forte
Agent, and it runs just like in Windows.

I know that there is a program called Crossover for MAC* that allows you to do
the same in the MAC OS, and there is a way to get WINE to run on your OS so you
can run Windows programs. I won't be able to help you with this, but if you
don't want to install Windows as a virtual machine, the second section of the
following article, titled "Use Wine to Run Windows Apps With Wineskin" may help.


If you get it working, it should run like it does in Windows. Pay attention to
the COM port used so you choose the correct one in CHIRP.

If you get it working with WINE, please let us know. You might be able to write
up a small article for the group that we can store in the files section.


Donald KX8K

* I've used Crossover for Linux and it works well for me. It's not free, though
there is an evaluation period, which might give you enough time to program your
radio. I think the evaluation is not feature-limited.

If you contact Codeweavers, you can inquire about becoming a beta tester for the
Crossover for MAC product, and if you actively test and feedback your test
results, you get a free license for it.


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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

Looking for advice on how to get CHIRP to work with my MacBook and UV-S9Plus. I’ve reviewed a number of YouTube videos but everyone is using Windows. The displayed “upload to Baofeng” remains an inactive prompt. The online CHIRP directions are not working for my hardware/software.

thanks for any help

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Greetings,

I have a cable that has that chip in it. I had to find the driver for it. It may
have came on a small CDROM disc or I might have looked for it online, but it
worked.


Donald KX8K





On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:26:22 -0800, "Jim Unroe" <jru.groupsio@...> wrote:

If I recall, your programming cable has a WCH CH340 USB-to-Serial chip. I can remember a few years have an issue with a programming cable with CH340 chip

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

How do you open the TX range in CHIRP?? I am using chirp-next v20240217 that I just installed.? I am able to connect to the UV9PX.

Thanks and 73,

--
Tad Danley, K3TD


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If I recall, your programming cable has a WCH CH340 USB-to-Serial chip. I can remember a few years have an issue with a programming cable with CH340 chip. My solution was to download and install the latest driver from the chip vendor's website to replace the one that was installed by Windows. So now when I setup a Windows computer that has never use with a programming cable before, I go ahead and install the latest FTDI, Silicon Labs and WCH drivers from each chip vendor. Then I install the old Prolific v3.2.0.0 driver. Then only after that is done, I finally plug in the programming cable.

You didn't say whether you reloaded Windows after running that command and before testing whether that fixed your problem. If you did reload windows, then it didn't fix your problem. But if you didn't reload windows, then the code may be in memory from the corrupt files and may have still been used. It sounds like you've discovered something that works though, so I'll say 73 & move on.

Have you used "SFC /SCANNOW" command in a DOS window to check the integrity of your operating system files? If you haven't, then you might try that to see if that runs clean. If it doesn't run clean, it will attempt to correct the operating system file problem or create a log with a brief description of the problem. There is another command to restore your system files, if you need it.

Richard . . .


On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:30:29 +0000 (UTC), "Richard AG5M via groups.io"
<ag5m@...> wrote:

It's something in the laptop. Nothing else I ever have used on this laptop has given me any trouble.

I used to troubleshoot weird things like this by disabling all non-Microsoft
startup programs and seeing if the problem went away. It usually did.

Then, I enabled half of the non-Microsoft programs in startup and if the problem
came back, it was one of those programs causing the problem, but to be sure, I
disabled all those and then enabled the other half of the programs. If the
problem didn't come back, then it was a matter of a process of elimination on
the group of programs I first disabled and eventually I would find the program
that was interfering with the other program I wanted to run.

Sometimes it was just a matter of not allowing that offending program to start
up with Windows, and only using it from the program menu, which would mean a
longer program load time but I prefer that to part of a program taking up some
RAM when it's not being used. After I was done using the offending program, I
would close it. If part of the program remained in RAM, it could cause problems
with the other program but I could kill the task in Task Manager.

You can also play whack-a-mole using Task Manager, killing various programs
until CHIRP runs OK. That may not work as well as disabling programs in startup,
though.


Donald KX8K



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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

The other thing I just now thought of is that your laptop may have two things
trying to use the same COM port.

This article might help. It mentions a Microsoft utility to list what things are
using the COM ports. The utility is Process Explorer.





Donald KX8K




On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:04:29 -0500, "Donald Hellen" <donhellen@...>
wrote:

You could have some program interfering with the driver. What does it show in
Device Manager in Windows? Is the driver showing as working?



On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:14:02 +0000 (UTC), "Richard AG5M via groups.io"
<ag5m@...> wrote:

. So exactly what the issue is with my HP laptop and is unknown. Will do some more digging when I get home and report back.

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

You could have some program interfering with the driver. What does it show in
Device Manager in Windows? Is the driver showing as working?



On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:14:02 +0000 (UTC), "Richard AG5M via groups.io"
<ag5m@...> wrote:

. So exactly what the issue is with my HP laptop and is unknown. Will do some more digging when I get home and report back.

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP