[chirp_users] Arcshell AR-5

[Carlton Noles]

Looking in DEVICE MANAGER my cables show up as

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and the driver info
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on Win  10
 for either the AR-5 or BF888 I still get refusal to go into programming
mode. will try the other radios in the sed.

Carlton Noles
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:20 PM Nicolas Pike <nicolas at jetblackjelly.com>
wrote:

> 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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