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issue with chirp

Thread starter scoobie69d
Start date Mar 11, 2014

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scoobie69d

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Mar 11, 2014

Ramchops said:
ya spend ten bucks on a cable and download CHIRP and the driver.. CHIRP is free too. I use my UV5R for vol firefighting and have no issues, granted we have pr400 and ht1250 for our bunker gear, but I sometimes carry the UV5R. Wont do paging alerts though.

I have the Baofeng UV-5r. and I purchased the cable and CD to program, I've also tried CHIRP on my MacBook Pro, but it did not work ... I can't figure where I went wrong
any suggestions?