CHIRP

David,
Disregard the above. Apparently the .img file didn't load into my hex editor properly.

What I need are .img files downloaded from each radio. Not the .img file that you tried to upload.

Thanks,
Jim KC9HI

Jim,

Not sure I understand your request. The two .img files sent are files I successfully uploaded to the two radios in question. They were built from the factory .img files downloaded and then modified with my settings.

Are you asking me to download from those radios, save as a .img, and then upload to you?

Dave
KG5RF

Are you asking me to download from those radios, save as a .img, and then upload to you?

Yes. Thanks in advance.
Jim KC9HI

David,

The image from radio #1 is corrupt. It is a cross between an N5R image and a BFB image. It also has a place where channel 127 is repeated 3 times in an area of memory that it should not be. It need to have a good image uploaded to it.

CHIRP will not permit the image from radio number 1 to uploaded into radio number 2 because the specific area of memory that CHIRP checks to see if it matches does not match. CHIRP will not let the image from radio number 2 to be uploaded into radio number 1 for the same reason. In this situation, CHIRP is behaving exactly as it is programmed and expected to behave.

You can "fix" radio #1 by temporarily downgrading to CHIRP daily-20140717 (before the protection was added) and uploading the image from radio #2. For more details, you can visit the miklor.com "Recovery using CHIRP Software":http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-Recovery.php#N5R page.

With the changes that Baofeng has made in the last 6 to 9 months, it is not a good idea to trade CHIRP Radio Images files between Baofeng radios. Personally, I would keep a separate CHIRP Radio Image (*.img) for each radio and use the CHIRP Import feature to import the "master" image into each radio.

Jim KC9HI