radio programming software for ubuntu free download

Plug the other end into your radio and switch it on. Use dmesg to find which Linux device it’s on (e.g. The application is pretty straightforward to use (and you don’t need to find the English menu from the Chinese menu, unlike with the Windows app).

So I downloaded the source (straight Python code) from the CHIRP website and ran it in a new directory in my home area. One snag is that the version distributed through Ubuntu’s standard repositories doesn’t work with the UV-5R (the version distributed that way, at the time of writing, is 0.1.something). In order to set up a load of channels for Marine, PMR446 and local amateur repeaters, there’s some free, open source software called CHIRP that works a treat. So my UV-5R cable works and has a driver running on /dev/ttyUSB0. pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 usb 2-1.2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 USB Serial support registered for pl2303 usb 2-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 38 using ehci_hcd Anyway, here’s the detail of how to program the radio with Ubuntu 12.04: DriverĪs mentioned in the intro, I just plugged in the USB cable and issued the dmesg command to the console. Bingo, USB cable recognised straight away (from dmesg). So, then I plugged the cable into my everyday workhorse, an Ubuntu 12.04 laptop. I even tried installing a recommended, older, driver for the PL2303 USB cable chipset. I fired up my Windows 7 machine to use the ‘recommended’ VIP programming software and it didn’t recognise the USB programming cable. Pofung) UV-5R handheld tranceiver turned up today.

Radio programming software for ubuntu free download