This radio identifies itself with a unique (as far as we know) fingerprint. It just needs to receive a different string to initiate cloning. It is apparently the first sample made for BTECH and the manufacturer didn't get around to changing this string yes so it happens to require the same string that initiates cloning of the WACCOM MINI-8900 Plus.
Okay, so if it's a preprod radio, then I would say the few people that have those needing to know they have to choose some random other model is...not the worst thing in the world :)
It would certainly kinda suck to penalize everyone just so that the preprod radios work under their rightful name.
What about another option, which is we include a dummy radio that alone does the probing, and tell people that if they don't know what to use, they can use "GeneriMobile 9000" radio, which will take a lot of time probing all the various magics to find the right one?
We could also consider a generic "probe my radio" command in chirp that people could run from the help menu or something, but that'll require some UI work...
--Dan