<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><strong style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">NOTE:</strong><span style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> RTSystems</span><span style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> has recently been shipping cables intentionally handicapped to prevent their use with third party software, and to prevent use of third party cables with </span><em style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">their</em><span style="color:rgb(72,72,72);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> software. Beware that if you buy their software/cable package, you will not be able to use their cables with CHIRP!</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>That is just pure mean spirited. Why should anyone sell a cable that is intentionally buggered so it doesn't work with other types of software.</div><div><br></div><div>That's almost evil.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Robert Terzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rct@r-t.org" target="_blank">rct@r-t.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 9/28/2012 5:12 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:><br>
> It sounds to me like you got bit by the Prolific drivers and possibly<br>
> counterfeit Prolific chips (seems to be about 90% of the topics on<br>
> this mailing list).<br>
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Unfortunately, it seems like it's almost every ham group that I read has<br>
this on-going saga.<br>
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In case it helps any one else, Valley Enterprises is in the process of<br>
converting all the cables they sell to be FTDI based. Their site generally<br>
mentions FTDI and Windows 7 in the description of the cable so you can tell<br>
what you are ordering. They are also available through Amazon.<br>
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I added a link to Chirp's Cable Guide on the Wiki:<br>
<a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/CableGuide" target="_blank">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/CableGuide</a><br>
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