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<font size="-1">Hello Bob,</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">Clearly from the information posted to Yeasu's website the in-the-box
supplied cable is a Prolific chipset. However, Yeasu appears to have
tweaked the PID/VID to 'cripple' the cable and limit its use.</pre>
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That's not correct. The USB cable Yaesu provided for the FT2 is
just a vanilla USB cable. The VID:PID you're seeing is coming from
the Yaesu FT2D radio itself. I bet this is a MUXed USB chip (maybe
similar to the CP-102) chips that can do multiple things (this is
how say the Kenwood TS590SG works too). That's just a guess and
there is very little information out there on this port, how say the
Camera MIC accessory works with it, etc. Yaesu has not offered any
details though people have been asking for years.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Coming from ground zero, the radio and manual is daunting. There are a
lot of nuances and frankly, the manual isn't well written, so I'm not
surprised that I missed the difference between a 'data' cable and a
'programming' cable.</pre>
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It's also a change in behavior as the FT1D didn't support direct USB
connectivity for firmware updates like this.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Late yesterday, I was able to figure out how to program it via uploading
to the microSD card. But pulling the card out, loading the data to it,
then putting the microSD card back into the FT2DR is extremely time
consuming and inefficient. (And if not careful you can fat finger the
microSD card and break it or the slot. I've had to use tweezers to pull
the card out -- I can't get my fingers in grab the card.) The Yeasu
ADMS-8 software appears to have limited functionality.</pre>
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Yaesu provided a microSD card extration tool as part of the FT1D
radio for this very reason (it's just a set of plastic tweasers).<br>
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<pre wrap="">Programming via the radio UI is also possible, but slow and inefficient.
But, I did 6 or 7 local repeaters yesterday.
So my next question is does the list have a recommendation on a
'programming' cable that I should get?</pre>
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Sounds like the RT Systems cable and software is your only option
today. Maybe in the future, someone will be willing to reverse
engineer the FT2 programming signalling via the SCU-19 cable. Btw,
some time ago, RT Systems was recommending to write to the FT2
memories file to the SD card (via a USB card reader). You would
then upload to the radio via the SD import on the radio itself.
They might have added support for the programming cable since then.
I would reach out to them and see if that's still the case.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone updated the firmware for either the FT1D or FT2D with the
supplied cable? Any failures?</pre>
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I've upgraded my FT1 with the SCU-19 cable w/o any issues. It's
critical you follow every step (must be connected to a power
source), flipping the programming switch, etc. The FT2 might be
different so you need to read the instructions.<br>
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--David<br>
KI6ZHD<br>
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