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[Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 11:10 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> I'm working on updating the version in the Ubuntu Hams PPA as we speak.
> 
>  -Kamal


Joshua, the chirp version in the Ubuntu Hams PPA has now been updated,
but adding a pointer to the chirp-daily PPA to the wiki is certainly
also a good idea.  Please go right ahead and update the wiki.

73 de KA6MAL

 -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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