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teufler
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did you download your radio first? Else go to Miklor Information Site, VHF UHF Handheld Radios and download a 297 file. There have been some reports of using the speaker jacks, the pins stick when a speaker pin has been extracted.Sometimes inserted you cable several times , solves the problem. If the speaker is muted, using the ear phone speaker, do you hear sound through the ear phone spreaker, its the jck.
baofenq uv-5r
Thanks for the help, however been on to this site and tyred to download the file seems to be a dead link ???
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also used the hands free kit still no joy ??
Thanks for the help, however been on to this site and tyred to download the file seems to be a dead link ???
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also used the hands free kit still no joy ??
teufler
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bfb 297 files
LINK WORKING, HERE are the two 297 files,
LINK WORKING, HERE are the two 297 files,
matty909
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Be careful using accessories in the baofeng jacks, i started using a speaker mic which in return caused my internal radio mic to stop working, YouTube has a video on how to fix it but i recommend doing the mod to save the trouble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BrGo1-uW3k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Which version of CHIRP were you using? Did you use it to upload a CHIRP Radio Image (*,img) file from another radio with incompatible firmware? If an incompatible image from an older radio was uploaded, the new memory layout is corrupted by the old memory layout and the radio will no longer receive.
The CHIRP v0.4.x stable builds are 17 months old and are not recommended for Baofeng radios. There have been many models added, firmware version number changes and a memory layout change that required being addressed by daily builds. The latest daily build won't let you upload an incompatible image.
What you will have to do is upload the backup image that you saved the first time that you downloaded from your radio using CHIRP. This will restore the memory back to the way it was originally and restore receive back to normal.
If you didn't make an original backup image, then you will have to follow the recovery procedure on the miklor website.
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