Good news Tony. It is just amazing (to me) how many problems are related to these USB to serial cables! After reading a bunch of cable stories, I bought good quality FTDI cables for myself, and skipped the whole issue. At the time I thought they were expensive at $20 bucks, but maybe good cables are actually cheaper after you consider the hidden costs of "cheap" cables; time & frustration, and in some cases the cost of another set of cables.
Anyway, glad it worked out for you.
Best, Dave Nathanson
On Oct 16, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Tony Cratz cratz@hematite.com wrote:
On 10/10/2013 02:18 AM, Jim Unroe wrote:
If the above isn't the problem, then I would suspect that the programming cable is bad and needs replaced.
Jim KC9HI
I want to follow up on this thread I started. After trying to trim the orginal connector on the cable I had and trying it again, it failed.
I did order a new cable which had on it the Baofeng name. It showed up Friday and last night I tried it.
The cable worked with no problem what so ever. Which means the other cable I bought was bad. It was not the connector but the cable itself.
Now that I have a good working cable I have been able to download from the radio and also upload to it with no problem.
Chrip worked fine and I have already added some 70+ channels to my new UV-5R+.
Tony