I would suggest buying BaoFeng stuff from BaoFeng Tech (on Amazon) . They are a US company and will back up their products in the US. The cable you need is at https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Genuine-Programming-Cable-BaoFeng/dp/B00HUB... There is also a "red cable" that works but I forgot what brand it is. The market was flooded with counterfeit chips so the manufacturers changed the chip and programming so that the old chips don't work. Expect to pay $20+. The $10 ones probably won't work without finding an old driver. I used the BF-Tech one with Windows 10 a few days ago with CHIRP and it worked fine, no problems. One tip: CHIRP prompts you to save your setup. When I went to the saved file (an .img file) and clicked on it, it said "the file is corrupted". After a couple of frustrating hours I tried opening the saved file by clicking on 'file', 'open' in the CHIRP program, and the saved image file opened OK.
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Garth Robinson soundtek@vodafone.co.nz wrote:
Hi Jim,
..... so, how can one guarantee ( without dismantling the cable ) that there is a genuine chip within the cable? I'm even suspect of the Baofeng cables.
Garth. zl1tue ..... an still shakin'
On 11/19/2016 11:14 AM, Jim Unroe wrote:
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Garth Robinson soundtek@vodafone.co.nz soundtek@vodafone.co.nz wrote:
Hi, s'cuse me butting in but.......
will these work under windoze 10 ?I noticed that the webpage only mentioned xp, vista, 2000, win7 etc. in other words do you still have to use the backdated driver?
Garth, zl1 tue
When using a Prolific type chip based programming cable with Windows, you might as well count on using the backdated driver because the majority of these chips are counterfeit. The device driver auto installed by Windows has been incompatible with counterfeit chips since around 2008. The backdated driver will work no matter if the chip is genuine or not.
V2.0.2.1: Windows XP V3.2.0.0: Windows Vista, 2000, 7, 8.x and 10
Both drivers can be obtained from links on the miklor.com website.
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