[chirp_users] baofeng cable

[Lreiher]

folks, thank you all for your efforts to help me out.  the reality is 
that BENTON seems to have it correct. the cable i purchased was directly 
from baofeng. i believe that the source was china b/c when i wrote them 
they told me i bought it 14 mo.s ago and that it was listed as 'works w/ 
win vista, win7, win 8' and was never listed as for win 10. i pointed 
out that win 10 did not exist when i bought the cable!  clearly, they 
have used a CLONE of the ftdi chip and, as benton noted, the drivers 
which FTDI loaded into my PC w/o my knowledge or permission was designed 
to send TRASH to my cable and render it inoperable! i proved that by 
using a friend's cable and it worked fine w/ my UV-5RTP; but, my cable 
on HIS pc is useless. the device mgr sees the cable but does NOT get 
thru it to see the radio.  i asked baofeng if tthey would write code to 
FIX the cable since it is their shared fault for using a clone in the 
first place. they didnt respond to that message.  now, i have reviewed 
about 15 programming cables; all - EXCEPT one - are less than $6; oNE is 
$20 and it is marked 'genuine FTDI cable'.  so, i kknow that i could 
resolve this for 20 bucks. but i am pissed that FTDI trashed something i 
purchasedd in good faith FROM the manufacturer!!
so, i was hoping someone had the expertise to write code to send to my 
cable to make it functional again.

thanks again to you all for your input; however, i'm afraid that i'm 
still out in left field.............
peace,
larry
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