Baofeng Baofeng UV-21 Pro V2

[Daleb49]

I bought a $35.00 radio to play with as a listing device only.
I'm not a licensed Ham so no transmitting for sure.
I have the factory cable to hook up USB to my computer and using T6UV Series EN CPS software.
I'm also using Com 2 which does start to talk to the radio, The radio shows the computer on the screen so I assume it's talking to the radio and when I try to do a read from the radio. It starts and then comes up with an error. No error code just error.
Anyone have any tips to possibly get this error resolved?
I appreciate any tips as this Baofeng is all new to me.

 

[inside4rom]

Try find another software and test ur cable in exactly supported model and software, for example i have UV5R cable and BF-888s, with BF480 factory software, so if two next step work fne, then cable is 100% rifgt and if i get any error in uv5r then first what i make the find another soft.
Like this.

 

[Daleb49]

Try find another software and test ur cable in exactly supported model and software, for example i have UV5R cable and BF-888s, with BF480 factory software, so if two next step work fne, then cable is 100% rifgt and if i get any error in uv5r then first what i make the find another soft.
Like this.

The cable is brand new and was part of the package I bought so I hope it's okay.
I'll look into other software.
Thanks for you suggestions.

 

[Daleb49]

Update, I found out that my program cable didn't seat all the wat into the radio.
Now that it's seated properly I'm able to read and write to the radio using T6UV Series EN CPS.
I wrote a new file to the radio and I get reception as the green receive light lights up and it stops on a know active frequency
I get no audio at all.
Attached is a couple of lines of what i programed.
Any advice as did I input something wrong to cause no audio.
This is all new to me so any suggestions are apricated.

 

[Daleb49]

In addition here is my function settings screen.

Thanks for any help trying to learn this new programming.

 

[mass-man]

As I just spent sometime with a new UV-6 maybe I can help! Check that your CTCSS codes are correct on receive…or eliminate them all together and see if that works! Had the same no audio gotcha until I checked the tones!

 

[Daleb49]

As I just spent sometime with a new UV-6 maybe I can help! Check that your CTCSS codes are correct on receive…or eliminate them all together and see if that works! Had the same no audio gotcha until I checked the tones!

Well my tones were correct but I removed them all and Bingo!
Works like a charm.
Many thanks , I would have never thought the codes would stop audio from coming through.

 

[mass-man]

Glad it’s working…in scanner type use I almost always turn off the codes! Makes thing simpler…the purpose of the code is to do what’s it’s doing! The transmitting station sends a sub-audible code that opens up the receiver! Keeps strange types of interference from opening up the receiver. As well different agencies could be on the same channel but with different tones. User A would only hear User A radios even though User B is also on there!

 

[Daleb49]

Glad it’s working…in scanner type use I almost always turn off the codes! Makes thing simpler…the purpose of the code is to do what’s it’s doing! The transmitting station sends a sub-audible code that opens up the receiver! Keeps strange types of interference from opening up the receiver. As well different agencies could be on the same channel but with different tones. User A would only hear User A radios even though User B is also on there!

Thanks for the info. I used codes from my working TRX-1 that does decode correctly. So I thought they would be good on the new radio.
I took all of the DCS CTTS codes out and she is scanning away.
For $37.00 if fun to play with it.