21 Nov
2016
21 Nov
'16
7:58 a.m.
Since I deal with many radios, I actually prefer the Prolific type chip. It has the advantage that once a USB port is setup with the older, compatible with all Prolific chips, driver, I can plug in any one of my Prolific chip bases programming cables and it will always have the same COM port assigned to it.
By default, each FTDI based programming cable gets it's own separate COM port (something else I would have to keep track of). I know there is a Windows registry hack that can be done so that FTDI cables will behave the same way, but I haven't bothered since all of my radios have at least 1 Prolific chip based programming cable and only a very few radios have FTDI based programming cables.
Jim