[chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 14

[Milton Garb]

Mitch,
That's an unusual "opportunity".
I've used the cheaper cables from eBay on different radio's with CHIRP and 
had no problems,
HOWEVER: When I program my UV-5R, none of them work at all, except a DB9 
cable that came with my Kenwood TK-3170 commercial radio.
Nothing special here. WinXP Pro, SP3 etc. on my $100 swap meet cheapie Dell 
laptop. I use the laptop for Field Day, programming radio's and 'dats it.
Milton
N6MG

>
>
> I am successfully using Chirp on a MacBook Pro to program Baofeng UV-5R 
> and
> Wouxun KG-UVA1 radios. I am using the latest daily builds, currently CHIRP
> daily-20120912.
>
> I am using an unknown cheap EBay programming cable. The only quirk I have
> found is that the software will only read from or write to the radios one
> time. You then have to unplug the cable, plug it back in, and it will work
> again for another time, a trivial inconvenience. I do not have this 
> problem
> using the same cable, same build, on a netbook running Windows 7.
>
> The Chirp software is great and I especially like the ability to query
> frequency data bases for area repeaters, as I travel quite a bit.
>
> Mitch, W4OA