{"id":3429,"date":"2017-06-24T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2017-06-24T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T13:33:58","slug":"saturday-24-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/06\/24\/saturday-24-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 24 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:31 –<\/strong><\/span> It was 65.4F (18.5C) when I took Colin out around 0645 this morning, bright and sunny. When I looked a few minutes ago, we were up to 81.7F (27+C). Barbara is washing her car and doing other outside stuff this morning. This afternoon we do still more science kit stuff.<\/p>\n

My Amazon order arrived yesterday morning, with a name-brand programming cable and a Nagoya NA-771 whip antenna for the UV-82. I plugged the cable into a USB port, connected and turned on the radio, and fired up CHIRP to program it. CHIRP didn’t see the UV-82. Ruh-Roh.<\/p>\n

So I brought up a terminal and typed:<\/p>\n

dmesg | grep FTDI<\/p>\n

That returned the following, which told me the driver was installed and working.<\/p>\n

[4329131.762676] usb 1-3.1.7.4: Manufacturer: FTDI
\n[4329131.765293] ftdi_sio 1-3.1.7.4:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
\n[4329131.765800] usb 1-3.1.7.4: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0<\/p>\n

As it turned out, the problem was that my account wasn’t in the dialout group, so I had no access to ttyUSB0. That was easy enough to fix. I just added my account to the dialout group, logged out and back in, and everything worked as expected. CHIRP recognized that the UV-82 was connected, so I downloaded and saved a copy of the default channel programming. That was kind of weird, incidentally. It looked pretty much random.<\/p>\n

I then attempted to upload to the radio that CHIRP template that had 99 emergency frequencies pre-defined. It blew up with ERROR in every field. Hmmmm. Now that I think about it, it did the same thing two or three years ago when I first tried to program one of my UV-82 radios. IIRC, the problem then was that that template wasn’t formatted correctly. It was in CSV format, which CHIRP expects, but there were errors in the way the fields were laid out.<\/p>\n

So I next uploaded one of the default templates that’s supplied with the CHIRP package, which included FRS\/GMRS frequencies. That one uploaded fine to the radio. When I disconnected it, turned it off and then back on, the FRS\/GMRS frequencies displayed as expected. So now I need to bring up the emergency frequencies template in a text editor and figure out again what the problem is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

09:31 – It was 65.4F (18.5C) when I took Colin out around 0645 this morning, bright and sunny. When I looked a few minutes ago, we were up to 81.7F (27+C). Barbara is washing her car and doing other outside stuff this morning. This afternoon we do still more science kit stuff.<\/p>\n

My Amazon order arrived yesterday morning, with a name-brand programming cable and a Nagoya NA-771 whip antenna for the UV-82. I plugged the cable into a USB port,<\/p>\n

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