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Re: Please delete or upgrade chirp packages in ppa:ubuntu-hams-updates/ppa

 

On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 12:59 -0400, 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.)

Thanks for bringing this up.  I've just updated the chirp package in the
Ubuntu Hams PPA to version (0.4.1-1.0) -- the version uploaded to Debian
unstable on 2014-11-03 -- which appears to include the fix for the issue
you're describing:

   * new upstream version fixing critical issue with some Baofeng radios
     (Closes: #767029)

Darxus and Joshua, please confirm that the 0.4.1-1.0 version now in the
ubuntu-hams-updates/ppa does indeed resolve the problem.  The PPA
updates are for Precise, Trusty, and Utopic (Vivid and Wily already
carry that chirp version):

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-updates/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=chirp

73 de KA6MAL

 -Kamal




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