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[Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm working on updating the version in the Ubuntu Hams PPA as we speak.

 -Kamal

On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 11:07 -0700, joshua besneatte wrote:
> I am also using a uv5r and confirm that the daily snapshot of Chirp
> from their PPA works fine with my radio. The latest version of Chirp
> also gives a warning stating that there are problems with the
> inconsistencies between the firmwares that come installed on different
> releases of the UV-5r.
> 
> 
> Perhaps if it would be too much hassle to pull Chirp from the PPA, we
> could at least add a warning in the wiki with a link to the Chirp
> snapshot PPA. It would be quick and easy to add at least a
> warning/suggestion/link to keep someone else from running into the
> problem Darkus had.
> 
> 
> With the frequency (haha no pun intended) at which China is pumping
> out some really great radios at great prices, it will definitely be
> essential to always use the latest snapshot of Chirp.
> 
> 
> I can do the wiki updates if that's what the group wants. Let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:59 AM, <darxus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         It's an old version which has a bug that resulted in me not
>         being able to
>         use my new radio for the week long event I purchased it for.
>         
>         If you download a chirp file from a Baofeng UV-5R with an
>         older firmware
>         version (such as BFS311), then upload it to a radio with a
>         newer firmware
>         (such as N5R2407) with a version of chirp older than daily
>         build 07172014,
>         it will not recieve audio.  Issue #2 here:
>         
>         http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-RecoverN5R.php
>         
>         If this PPA did not exist, I would have used
>         https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archive/ubuntu/chirp-snapshots and not had
>         this problem.
>         
>         (I used the PPA because the version in precise was too old to
>         upload to a
>         UV-5R, I believe.)
>         
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