[chirp_users] baofeng cable

[Todd Bloomingdale]

Are you sure that is an FTDI and not a prolific chip.?

Todd Bloomingdale​-KC9LOX​

Tomah, WI

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Lreiher <lreiher at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
> KD9AVZ
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