CHIRP

Jim,

The upload is being stopped by design. You must not upload an image from one Baofeng radio directly into another Baofeng radio unless the firmware versions of both exactly match. The error message clearly shows that the firmware version of the image being uploaded does not exactly match the firmware version of the radio to which it is being uploaded.

"The upload was stopped because the firmware version of the image ( Ver BFB293 ) does not match that of the radio (N5R2407BFB297 )."

There are several ways that the channels from the UV5R can be transferred to the UV-5RV2+. Here are two.

The most thorough way to transfer the channels between the two radios is to import the image of the source radio into a tab that was created from the destination radio. A guide that describes how you do this is "here":https://baofengtech.com/CHIRPImport.

A quick and dirty second method for doing this is to load the source image into CHIRP. This creates what I will call the "source tab". Then you would download from the radio that you want to program. This creates a second tab that I will call the "destination tab". You can then copy-and-paste (a single channel, groups of channels or all 128 channels) from the source tab to the destination tab. Once the channels have been transferred, you will be able to update any other settings and then upload the destination tab back into the radio.

The above methods are also useful to transfer memory channels between radios of differing models as well as differing vendors.

Jim KC9HI

Jim Kennedy wrote:

Thanks Jim! The work around went smoothly, thanks to your guidance. I've documented it for future use, which likely will come in handy in the future.

73,

Jim K6MIO/KH6

Thanks for the follow up report of success. Have fun with your new radio.

Jim KC9HI