[chirp_users] Baofeng Radios

[Jens J.]

IMHO, It's not so much that the put in an anti-counterfeit measure, which they have every right to do, but instead it's all in the way they handled it.

Because of the prolific (pun intended) nature of the counterfeits, it seems like Prolific should have surfaced the reasoning of failure with more clarity.
A message such as "this driver will not work with your cable - it is likely a counterfeit" may have been helpful. But instead they seem to have failed silently (mac), or at least cryptically (error 10 on windows xp?)

At least in the realm of radio programming cables and Chinese radios, you are more likely to see a fake than a real prolific, so this impact may be more common to our world.

-Jens



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Don't blame Prolific, they just put in some extra code to check if their driver is being used on a genuine or fake chip.

73 de Nigel ve3id


On 07/01/2014 12:36 PM, Pete Mackie wrote:
> I too only use a FTDI USB / serial cable with my HT. I use this cable with my Yaesu VX-6 on three separate computers. One workstation and two field laptops. My FTDI cable connects 100% of the time with fail proof HT uploads and downloads. 
> 
> As I read all of the gross Prolific connection failure support requests, I am now wondering why Hams even waste their time in dealing with using Prolific USB / serial cables?
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> Pete Mackie
> kg7ixu at arrl.net <mailto:kg7ixu at arrl.net>
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> On Jul 1, 2014, at 8:07 AM, MURS Radio <mursradio at gmail.com <mailto:mursradio at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I have previously used cables requiring the Prolific driver for most of my programming. Usually had about a 10-20% failure rate overall when programming or attempting to program even with the correct driver. I now use FTDI cables and no longer have any issues with everything else staying the same (computer, CHIRP version, etc.). The difference was drastic enough for me to toss the old cables.
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>> - Rob
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