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Chirp is an amateur radio program that will help program your radio from a computer. My radio is a Wouxun and the module is a KG-UV3D.The documentation says that is will work on this module, but there is not a setting for it so I got as close as I could. The cable looks like this:

Wouxun CableWhat I am trying to do is follow the instructions but I keep getting stuck. First, you click on the Radio link. Next, I click Download from Radio. From there I get this picture.

Chirp

After clicking ok, I get this error message:

could not open port /dev/ttyS0: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/dev/ttyS0'

Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Once again, thank you in advance for any assistance you may have to offer.

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  • What radio device are you trying to program? How did you connect it to your computer? You're now trying to connect to the first serial port on your computer. If that's what you want as a general user, you'll need privileges for that. I could post how to do that in an answer.
    – gertvdijk
    Dec 16, 2013 at 13:51
  • @gertvdijk, Yes please tell me how do you make it accessible for the general user?
    – BJsgoodlife
    Dec 16, 2013 at 20:56
  • Answer I was about to give is already provided (add yourself to the dialout group). However, as you appear to be using a USB serial adapter, I think you mean to use /dev/ttyUSB0.
    – gertvdijk
    Dec 16, 2013 at 21:31
  • @gertvdijk, thank you very much for trying but that did not work. Do you or Malt Skoruppa have any other ideas on how to fix this problem?
    – BJsgoodlife
    Dec 16, 2013 at 21:36
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    "Log out and in again" <-- Did you follow that? And if it's still not working, you should have another error message than in your question.
    – gertvdijk
    Dec 16, 2013 at 21:37

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That error means you are not allowed to access /dev/ttyS0 on your computer. Only root and users in the dialout group may access that device.

If you are running chirp as a normal user (I assume you are), the problem is probably quite simply that your user does not belong to the dialout group. Try the following command:

sudo usermod -aG dialout USERNAME

where you replace USERNAME with your own username, of course. Log out and in again, fire up chirp, it should now work.

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