<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Not completely sure, but I'm guessing fake prolific.</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <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 Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:04 PM, Tom Morris <blueneon@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7437419670"><div><div dir="ltr">Are the 409shop cables genuine PL-2303 or FTDI? </div><div class="yiv7437419670gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7437419670gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jens J. <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<blockquote class="yiv7437419670gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv7437419670yqt2460313874" id="yiv7437419670yqt62286"><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><div><span>409shop also has cables, which work fine for me.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span>For a few bucks more, I got a multi-cable kit that had like 6-in-1 interchangeable tips that worked with my vx-2,3,6 and ft-7900 (should be same din plug as 7800/7900/8800/8900).</span></div>
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<span>if you are so
inclined to build your own cable (I think you can find these din plugs in pc junk bins), this is a good reference for pinout:</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:09 PM, Aubrey
Turner <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com">aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div><div><div>
I presume you are referring to the FT-8800R? <br clear="none">
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If you are wanting to use CHIRP with this radio, all you need is the
right cable. No need to build anything unless you are into
tinkering with electronics, as there are plenty of them on the
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If you are lucky enough to still have an RS-232 port, here's a
serial version:<br clear="none">
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If all you have is USB, here's one that should work quite well:<br clear="none">
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Note that the above cables are a little pricey, and you can find
better prices on eBay. But I picked this vendor in particular
because they use the FTDI chipset in their USB cables, which usually
just works for people as soon as the driver is installed. The cheap
cables on eBay often use cloned chips that are based on Prolific
chips, and Prolific has booby-trapped the later versions of the
driver to fail with these cloned chips, so you have to jump through
some hoops to get them to work (i.e. load older drivers and disable
automatic driver updates). At least this is the case with Windows
and USB. This isn't an issue with the RS-232 version (as there is
no need for a USB-to-serial chip). It's also not an issue with USB
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<div><div>On 11/21/2013 03:43 PM, Randy Elliott
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<pre>Greetings to the group
Just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction to an interface I can build to communicate chirp with a Yaesu 8800 mobile radio.
Randy Elliott
Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com">ve3jpu@me.com</a>
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