[chirp_users] Baofeng 888s cable issue

[Kent Eichstaedt]

I would suggest buying BaoFeng stuff from BaoFeng Tech (on Amazon) . They
are a US company and will back up their products in the US.  The cable you
need is at
https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Genuine-Programming-Cable-BaoFeng/dp/B00HUB0ONK/ref=pd_bxgy_107_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GQTCEKK5J4S4NCMP3EH3
 There is also a "red cable" that works but I forgot what brand it is. The
market was flooded with counterfeit chips so the manufacturers changed the
chip and programming so that the old chips don't work. Expect to pay $20+.
The $10 ones probably won't work without finding an old driver.  I used the
BF-Tech one with Windows 10 a few days ago with CHIRP and it worked fine,
no problems.  One tip: CHIRP prompts you to save your setup. When I went to
the saved file (an .img file) and clicked on it, it said "the file is
corrupted".  After a couple of frustrating hours I tried opening the saved
file by clicking on 'file', 'open' in the CHIRP program, and the saved
image file opened OK.






On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Garth Robinson <soundtek at vodafone.co.nz>
wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> ..... so, how can one guarantee ( without dismantling the cable ) that
> there is a genuine chip within the cable? I'm even suspect of the Baofeng
> cables.
>
> Garth. zl1tue  ..... an still shakin'
>
> On 11/19/2016 11:14 AM, Jim Unroe wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Garth Robinson <soundtek at vodafone.co.nz> <soundtek at vodafone.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi, s'cuse me butting in but.......
>
>         will these work under windoze 10 ?
>
> I noticed that the webpage only mentioned xp, vista, 2000, win7 etc.  in
> other words do you still have to use the backdated driver?
>
>
> Garth,  zl1 tue
>
>
> When using a Prolific type chip based programming cable with Windows,
> you might as well count on using the backdated driver because the
> majority of these chips are counterfeit. The device driver auto
> installed by Windows has been incompatible with counterfeit chips
> since around 2008. The backdated driver will work no matter if the
> chip is genuine or not.
>
> V2.0.2.1: Windows XP
> V3.2.0.0: Windows Vista, 2000, 7, 8.x and 10
>
> Both drivers can be obtained from links on the miklor.com website.
>
> Jim KC9HI
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