Robert buy another cable, if the broken cable disconnects while altering your settings at the wrong time you could potentially brick the radio. It's not worth the risk. It might be ok, but by the same token it might still happen.
Dennis Smith M1DLG
On 8 September 2013 19:57, Robert Sears rtsears@comcast.net wrote:
I have a VX-5r and also had trouble in the start. I bought my cable off E-bay and it said it was for the VX-5r and a couple others.
Anyway I found that it was making intermittent contact inside and if I lightly press on the connector it worked.
My cable has a 90 degree plug on the radio end, I make sure it is pointing down the side if the radio and put a rubber band around it to hold it in place.
Now it works every time.
KF7VOP
On 9/7/2013 5:59 PM, John Smale wrote:
I have been trying to program a VX5R with no success, I have tried 2different types of USB cables and 2 different types of programs, chirp being one of them.
I am able to read from the radio but when I go to write to the radio Iget a comm error message.
Has anyone else run into this problem?73 John K2IZ
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