[chirp_users] Arcshell AR-5

[Nicolas Pike]

Hi,BF888 etc
I was given one that would not program, took it apart and found the radio
speaker/mike sockets were not actually soldered on to the board...
Nicolas

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 21:06, Tycen Stafford <tycen at tycen.com> wrote:

> What radio type did you pick in Chirp? Arcshell AR-5 are BF-888S clones. I
> have some Arcshell AR-6 and some other BF-888S clones and they all work
> well with Chirp if I use the BF-888S radio type.
>
> HOWEVER...I did run into this issue with some of my BF-888S radios (3 out
> of 6 from the same Amazon order): https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/4249
>
> I have no problems with my counterfeit prolific cables on Mac for my other
> radios - I'm past that issue. But like Jim details in that ticket (thanks
> Jim! - https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/4249#note-12) there are some
> BF-888S radios out there that just won't work with the counterfeit Prolific
> cables (even if you've overcome the driver issue in general).
>
> So, my solution was to finally pony up the ~$20 and get a FTDI cable (I
> still use my cheap $5 counterfeit Prolific cables for the rest of my
> Baofeng's).
>
> Good luck,
> Tycen
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 12:37 PM Carlton Noles <carlton.noles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am attempting to program these radios and get "radio refuses to enter
>> programming mode" when trying to download hte config from the radio.
>>
>>   newbie if you couldn't tell
>>
>> Carlton Noles
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