This is the one I got; works great. $11.91 with Prime shipping (and Amazon's money-back guarantee).
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CP0I474/
- Trevor, AG7GX
On 1/31/2018 1:43 PM, William Bates wrote:
I purchased one of those cheap cables off of ebay. I plugged it into my Baofeng GT-5 and it distroyed the finals.
Doug WB4JPG
*From: *"Shon Edwards" sre.1966@gmail.com *To: *"Jardy" jardy72@yahoo.com, "Discussion of CHIRP" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com *Sent: *Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:37:31 PM *Subject: *Re: [chirp_users] UV5 cable and drive
Is this the Baofeng UV-5R? I apologize if this has already been brought up before, but I always just use the RT Systems (in Colorado) cable and software. I have bought 25 different sets of cable+s/w for my radios and never a hitch once. I learned my lesson the first time I got a Chinese radio with s/w that was not in English, some of the characters in the path for some of the drivers on the disc provided were hard-coded into Chinese, so it took forever to try to get a "good" driver and cable. I am the poorest of hams and I will tell you that I will ALWAYS go to RT Systems for the cable and software. It's just plug 'n play. It's not worth the time I would spend trying to use old, generic or "fake" stuff to make it work. I realize it's possible that I will only use the software once, but I don't care. Programming a radio manually or with non-standard parts just isn't worth my time. Go ahead and spend the fifty bucks and get the RT Systems equipment unless you love headaches or big challenges: https://www.rtsystemsinc.com/baofeng-uv-5r-radio-programming-software-s/2225....
Good luck!
73 de Shon, K6QT
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Jardy via chirp_users <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
If you have the fake Prolific chip in your cable, go to www.miklor.com <http://www.miklor.com> and look for driver 3.2.0.0. It is easy to roll back the drivers if you need to. Having the FTDI cables is nice, but I have several cables for many different radios that use the same driver. Not as big of a deal as some would lead you to believe. Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies using the Universal Translator. On Jan 31, 2018, at 11:44, Darby Collier <collier.darby@gmail.com <mailto:collier.darby@gmail.com>> wrote: I ran into repeated issues with cables and drivers until I finally just opted for FTDI cables for both mobile and handheld. Problems solved immediately. On Jan 31, 2018 11:37 AM, "randy true" <w4rttrandy@outlook.com <mailto:w4rttrandy@outlook.com>> wrote: Just ordered a UV5 and cable and have heard that the correct driver is hard to locate. Any truth and where to find it. Randy W4RTT _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to DarbyInGreen at collier.darby@gmail.com <mailto:collier.darby@gmail.com> To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com> _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Jardy at jardy72@yahoo.com <mailto:jardy72@yahoo.com> To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com> _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to Shon, K6QT at sre.1966@gmail.com <mailto:sre.1966@gmail.com> To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com>
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