Baofeng GT-3TP Programming

[TailGator911]

A while back I bought the Baofeng GT-3TP as an emergency backup radio to throw in my road bag in the RV, and I had planned to play around with it the 2 months I was up in Alaska and Canada, but good fishing and my other radios kept me occupied and I never got around to trying to program it or even thinking about it. So now that things are settled down and I am back home I would like to get this little radio programmed so that I can grab it and go if need be. Cleaning out the RV I looked in the road bag and forgot I even had it on the trip! Well I brought it in and fired up the programming software just to fiddle around with it and I am having a heck of a time trying to get the comp to connect with the transceiver. Just trying to establish a connection so I am just trying to write a power-on message to the radio and it just stalls forever indicating 'connecting to transceiver'...

Am I supposed to see the radio in my usb tray icons? It's not showing up as a drive, either. I am stumped. Ideas?

JD
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[TailGator911]

I have switched to CHIRP and still getting errors. Says drivers are current. Using usb cable that came w/radio. Installed drivers and it auto-assigned Port 8. Radio flashes, then error says it cannot communicate. I have tried everything, switched USB slots, rebooted both comp and radio. I go into the port information and it says this device is working properly. I hear connect and disconnect tones on my computer when I turn the radio off and on, but there is no icon telling me it's there, and it has not went thru a normal driver install busy icon like I usually see. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver. I don't know what else to do. I have fresh towels and I am boiling water.

I know there is a resident Baofeng Master who dwells here in the forums. I am here with burnt offerings and cold beer (if you are close) calling your name....I fear a Chinese conspiracy and a Russian collusion. Something ain't right here.

What if I was in a ditch in the middle of a blizzard on the Great Divide?

Mercy, it's a $40 radio, fer cryin out loud! Help!

Who wants a free radio? Be outside my window in about 5 minutes ​

 

[Bob1955]

I have the Baofeng GT-5TP and have the software coming. I'm now wondering how I'll get it programmed. I just manually enter the upper and lower frequency and use it as a dual watch UHF/VHF Police/Fire monitor. So we are both in this together. I'm too far away for you to toss me a beer! Ha Ha

 

[Bob1955]

TailGator911, if it doesn't work out for you, private message me. Don't toss it out the window.

 

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

TailGator911, were you ever successful in getting your GT-3TP programmed? I recently bought one and was having a heck of a time getting it programmed. I kept getting the "failed to communicate with radio" error message. After scouring the internetm as well as the miklor.com website, I finally found a solution that worked for me.

It involved doing some trimming on the programming cable just below where it plugs into the radio. The 'border' around that area sticks up a little more that on the uv-5r / uv-82 series radios, and thus the pins can't be inserted into the radio all the way. I'm at work right now and can't find the website that showed a couple of pictures of where to trim, but when I get home in the morning, I'll check my home pc's browser history and see if I can find it. Once I did the trimming, I had no issues getting the radio programmed.

 

[TailGator911]

Nope, I gave up on it. Hmm, I will look into what you suggested, it seems I have heard this before. Thanks for that!

 

[FoxMcCloud]

I have the GT3TP Mkiii and I was able to successfully program it using chirp and the UV-5R driver for it