- BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE HOW TO
- BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE FOR MAC OSX
- BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE INSTALL
The BaoFeng bf-888s programming software free download can be found on the CHIRP website. Installing the programming software, CHIRP BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING CABLE DRIVER SOFTWARE
BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE FOR MAC OSX
Once on the CHIRP website click the link that says Click here to download the latest Windows version (or the link for Mac OSX or Linux), you will see the following screen for Windows users (Mac and Linux will be similar but from here on out I will only be showing the Windows version):įrom this screen you want to click on the chirp-daily-xxxxxxxx-installer.exe link (where xxxxxxxx is the date of the file) which will start the download. Once the download is complete you might see the following screen from Windows: BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING CABLE DRIVER FOR MAC OSX Click the link that says “More info” shown above and you should see the next screen: This is NOT because the file you downloaded is harmful, it is because Windows Smartscreen does not recognize the file and since it is an executable file, it is a little over cautious. Installing the cable used to program the BaoFeng BF-888S You can now click the “Run anyway” button at the bottom and continue the installation of CHIRP on your computer.
BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE INSTALL
Once you plug the cable into the computer it will either automatically find and install a driver for it, or it will not.
In my case it showed the following screen: You can check your device manager to see which happened. Note that it sees the cable, but does not know what to do with it. Inserting the disc allowed me to install the driver which then shows up in device manager like this: Since I opted for the Compatible USB Programming Cable for Baofeng to program the BaoFeng BF-888S, I received a cable and a small CD with the BaoFeng programming cable driver on it. BAOFENG 888S PROGRAMMING CABLE DRIVER INSTALL Take a good look at the information in the red box above, we will need it in a second to program the BaoFeng BF-888S. The next step is to plug in the radio, turn it on, and launch the CHIRP software. Now you will see a box pop up like the one below: Before we program the BaoFeng BF-888S we want to see what is already in the programming, click on the menu at the top and select Radio -> Download From Radio as shown here: The first time you run CHIRP you might see a pop up box that says that error reporting is enabled, you can just click OK and move on. Here is where we need to use that information I told you that you would need in a second, the COM port number. I have set mine to COM3 and if you look up a couple images you will see that it matches what was shown in the device manager. You should now see the following screen showing the default BaoFeng bf-888s frequency chart: Once you have the port set, set the Vendor box and Model box to what is shown in the image above and click OK.
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