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I have a Baofeng UV-5RA, I was able to bet my USB cable and driver to accept and be stable. I installed Chirp and it reads the radio on the correct port. My problem is when I try to download from the radio I get the following error message "could not open port COM 8: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified". Is this common? Is there a workaround?

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Ok you have installed and you are reading the radio on the correct com port, but you try to down+oad from the radio you get errors.?? I'm confused, If you are having comport issues, go to control panel and check device manager, then check com ports. You may have a driver issue. Go to the Miklor site and read about drives, and maybe this will help.

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You probably have CHIRP set to talk to a non-existent COM port. You have use Device Manager to see what COM port your USB cable actually uses (usually COM3, COM4, or COM5), and then set CHIRP to match. Plugging the cable into the same USB port on your computer each time is helpful, if you plug the cable into a different USB plug, it can end up on a different COM port.
 
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