

Your COM port number will probably be different

The first thing to do in Chirp is to download the radio's original configuration, and save that, just in case, and then work from that configuration. My finding is, that while it is not explicitly listed as a supported device, it appears to behave like the UV-82WP. There has been some controversy in the Chirp forum whether or not the UV9R Plus was supported or not. Once the driver has installed, it comes up as a serial port The USB Vendor ID identifies it as a Prolific bridge My windows found the driver itself with the "update driver" function of the device manager. It has a Baofeng label (unlike my UV5R programming cable described here) and has the Prolific USB2Serial bridge chip, which requires a driver, of course. The cable was a little over 5 bucks at the time of writing. I got the programming cable from Banggood: The programming cable with its odd connector
