User Manual Fot Chirp For Mac

11-05-2021 admin

It makes sense that your handheld radio should be able to take the place of multiple radios. Want to add all the channels you need quickly and easily? Let’s program a Baofeng Radio with CHIRP to get the job done.

Program a Baofeng Radio with CHIRP

The Baofeng handheld radios are inexpensive but cover many frequencies, making them the Swiss Army Knives of the budget ham radio community.

We’re going to program a Baofeng radio with CHIRP.

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The BaoFeng UV5R, is an amazing, yet economically priced radio. It can cover a multitude of channels and frequencies.

The Bands these cover (Not all of these are legal to broadcast on, but listening should be fine – see FCC Part 95 Rules)

2 Meter
70 cm
FRS (Family Radio Service)
GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service)
MURS (Multi-Use Radio Service)
Marine VHF
Public service Frequencies
NOAA Weather Band
FM radio (listen only)

That is quite a list of frequencies. While it’s not legal to transmit on all these frequencies if your not a HAM or if the device isn’t approved on the FCC Part 95, that really won’t apply after SHTF. I’d take an FCC fine over death any day!

Chirp Software For Mac

Preparing to Program Your BaoFeng

Software

I recommend CHIRP, to program your BaoFeng, so this post will refer to that software. CHIRP is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, so regardless of your operating system, you are covered.

Download the version you need and install it.

Programming Cable

Before you can program your radio with CHIRP, you’ll need the BaoFeng USB programming cable.

I did NOT use the driver disk that came with the usb cable, instead I grabbed the drivers over at https://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php (an awesome BaoFeng informational page).

Download and install the proper drivers for your USB cable (probably Prolific).

User Manual For Chirp For Mac Windows 10

Programming Your BaoFeng

Step 1

Open/Run CHIRP, connect your BaoFeng and plug it into an USB port on your computer.

First you’ll need to pull a copy of the existing config from your radio.

In CHIRP, select RADIO > Download From Radio

You’ll need to give CHIRP some information about your radio and what COM Port (or which /dev/XXXX in Linux and Mac OS) it’s connected to.

Once this step has been completed, it should list any channels that you have already programmed into memory.

Step 2

Now in CHIRP go to FILE > Open Stock Config and Select the group of channels that you’d like to add to your BaoFeng (This seems to be missing on the Mac OS version of CHIRP, fear not, I’ve included most of these “channels” in baofeng-freqs.csv )

In this screenshot, I have opened Marine VHF Channels

You can select the channels or all channels using the hot-key combinations for your OS

Windows (and most Linux systems unless you’ve remapped stuff)

Select all = CTRL + A (keys on your keyboard)
Select individual Channels = CTRL + mouse click
Select Range of Channels = Mouse click to highlight start then, SHIFT + mouse click on the last in the range that you’d like to select

Then CTRL + C (or EDIT > COPY ) to copy the selected channels

Step 3

Switch back to your BaoFeng Tab

Click on the first unoccupied channel and then select EDIT > PASTE (or CTRL + V) to paste in the previously copied channels from the Stock Config into your Radio’s Config

Step 3A

If you you don’t have enough channel slots, you can add more (Baofeng supports up to 128 memory channels, 0-127)

This is how my BaoFeng Config looks after adding FRS, GMRS, MURS, Marine VHF, and NOAA weather (Note: channel 0 is not programmed and channel 1 is my local HAM club’s repeater)

Step 4

Now you just have to upload this config back to your radio. Select RADIO > Upload to Radio and CHIRP will write it to your BaoFeng’s memory.

Alternative Options for the non-nerdy