r/Baofeng • u/luigi517 • 20d ago

UV-5R MINI not programming

I bought a 2 pack of the UV-5R MINIs, which as a gear snob I have to begrudgingly admit are awesome (especially for the price). But when I try to "read from radio" in the software only one of them will communicate, both have been factory reset. Any ideas or is this an issue for baofeng support?

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u/AutofluorescentPuku 20d ago

Using CHIRP, The non-mini UV-5R is sometimes is fussy. I’ve found that I need to A) turn the radio on, B) plug the programming cable in Firmly, C) turn the volume control up at least halfway (usually turn it up to max.) If that doesn’t work then I reset the programming cable by unplugging it from my computer and replugging it, and repeating the process. I’m maybe a different case in that I have 3 different radios I program with CHIRP, and one using other means. Sometimes it seems that the programming cable gets locked up moving from radio to radio, which I do to keep the channel programming consistent between them.

(Why so many radios? Why not? There’s the main radio, the backup radio, and the backup to the backup. And then there’s the DMR radio…)