<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>HMM, maybe that is my problem. How do we decide if it is the cable that is the problem? At least as important, where do we get a cable that is good?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thanks, Paul</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:35 AM,
Dave Nathanson <KG6ZJO@nathanson.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Good news Tony.<br clear="none">It is just amazing (to me) how many problems are related to these USB to serial cables! <br clear="none">After reading a bunch of cable stories, I bought good quality FTDI cables for myself, and skipped the whole issue. At the time I thought they were expensive at $20 bucks, but maybe good cables are actually cheaper after you consider the hidden costs of "cheap" cables; time & frustration, and in some cases the cost of another set of cables. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Anyway, glad it worked out for you. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best,<br clear="none"> Dave Nathanson<br clear="none"><div class="yqt3115604479" id="yqtfd02011"><br clear="none">On Oct 16, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Tony Cratz <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:cratz@hematite.com" href="mailto:cratz@hematite.com">cratz@hematite.com</a>> wrote:<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">> On 10/10/2013 02:18 AM, Jim Unroe wrote:<br clear="none">>> If the above isn't the problem, then I would suspect that the<br clear="none">>> programming cable is bad and needs replaced.<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">>> Jim KC9HI<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I want to follow up on this thread I started. After trying to<br clear="none">> trim the orginal connector on the cable I had and trying it<br clear="none">> again, it failed.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I did order a new cable which had on it the Baofeng name. It<br clear="none">> showed up Friday and last night I tried it.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The cable worked with no problem what so ever. Which means the<br clear="none">>
other cable I bought was bad. It was not the connector but the<br clear="none">> cable itself.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Now that I have a good working cable I have been able to<br clear="none">> download from the radio and also upload to it with no problem.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Chrip worked fine and I have already added some 70+ channels to<br clear="none">> my new UV-5R+.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Tony<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">chirp_users mailing
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