<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I purchased one of those cheap cables off of ebay. I plugged it into my Baofeng GT-5 and it distroyed the finals.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug</div><div>WB4JPG</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Shon Edwards" <sre.1966@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Jardy" <jardy72@yahoo.com>, "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:37:31 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [chirp_users] UV5 cable and drive<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is this the Baofeng UV-5R? I apologize if this has already been brought up before, but I always just use the RT Systems (in Colorado) cable and software. I have bought 25 different sets of cable+s/w for my radios and never a hitch once. I learned my lesson the first time I got a Chinese radio with s/w that was not in English, some of the characters in the path for some of the drivers on the disc provided were hard-coded into Chinese, so it took forever to try to get a "good" driver and cable. I am the poorest of hams and I will tell you that I will ALWAYS go to RT Systems for the cable and software. It's just plug 'n play. It's not worth the time I would spend trying to use old, generic or "fake" stuff to make it work. I realize it's possible that I will only use the software once, but I don't care. Programming a radio manually or with non-standard parts just isn't worth my time. Go ahead and spend the fifty bucks and get the RT Systems equipment unless you love headaches or big challenges: <a href="https://www.rtsystemsinc.com/baofeng-uv-5r-radio-programming-software-s/2225.htm" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.rtsystemsinc.com/baofeng-uv-5r-radio-programming-software-s/2225.htm">https://www.rtsystemsinc.com/baofeng-uv-5r-radio-programming-software-s/2225.htm</a>.<div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>73 de Shon, K6QT</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small" data-mce-style="font-size: small;">Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic)<br></div><div style="font-size:small" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Amateur call: K6QT<br>1039 N 2575 W<br>Layton, UT, 84041-7709<br>USA<br>Home phone: (801) 444-3445</div><div dir="ltr">E-mail: <a href="mailto:sre.1966@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:sre.1966@gmail.com" data-mce-style="color: #1155cc;">sre.1966@gmail.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">or</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Shon Edwards</div><div dir="ltr">715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd.</div><div dir="ltr">Bedford, WY 83112<br>Cell: (307) 248-2104</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Jardy via chirp_users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">If you have the fake Prolific chip in your cable, go to <a href="http://www.miklor.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.miklor.com">www.miklor.com</a> and look for driver 3.2.0.0. It is easy to roll back the drivers if you need to. Having the FTDI cables is nice, but I have several cables for many different radios that use the same driver. Not as big of a deal as some would lead you to believe. <br><div><br></div><div id="m_5754134119247537270AppleMailSignature">Jardy Dawson WA7JRD<div>Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies <span style="font-size:13pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13pt;">using the Universal Translator. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:13pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jan 31, 2018, at 11:44, Darby Collier <<a href="mailto:collier.darby@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:collier.darby@gmail.com">collier.darby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div></div><blockquote><div><div dir="auto">I ran into repeated issues with cables and drivers until I finally just opted for FTDI cables for both mobile and handheld. Problems solved immediately.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2018 11:37 AM, "randy true" <<a href="mailto:w4rttrandy@outlook.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:w4rttrandy@outlook.com">w4rttrandy@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_5754134119247537270m_-1564575082025085276divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Just ordered a UV5 and cable and have heard that the correct driver is hard to locate.</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Any truth and where to find it.</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Randy W4RTT<br></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> chirp_users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br> <a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br> This message was sent to DarbyInGreen at <a href="mailto:collier.darby@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:collier.darby@gmail.com">collier.darby@gmail.com</a><br> To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote><div><div><div class="h5"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br></div></div><span>This message was sent to Jardy at <a href="mailto:jardy72@yahoo.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jardy72@yahoo.com">jardy72@yahoo.com</a></span><span class=""><br><span>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span></span></div></blockquote></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> chirp_users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br> <a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br> This message was sent to Shon, K6QT at <a href="mailto:sre.1966@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:sre.1966@gmail.com">sre.1966@gmail.com</a><br> To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com<br>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users<br>This message was sent to Doug at wdbates@graceba.net<br>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>