Thanks for the response Jim. I wish it as easy as finding a short. I have three of the converted 6-in-1 cables and the behavior is the same. I will keep playing with it. I did not order the cheapest available CP2102 available from China and notice there are several different styles. Perhaps this one is somehow different in levels or buffering from the others. I have read online others have had success programming the FT-60 with the CP2102 so something is different. One thing of note is this is one of the CP2102s that John said has the TXD and RXD switched.

​On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Steve Whitehead nv7vham@gmail.com wrote:

I have been using one of the 6-in-1 programming cables with the

counterfeit

Prolific chip in it. After reading John Miklor's article about using the CP2102 in place of the Prolific counterfeit I replace the chip with the CP2102.

The cable works perfectly with the UV-5R radios but no longer works with

the

Yaesu FT-60. It is the same with my MacBook Pro or if I use FT-60 commander. I thought before I start spending several hours chasing this down I would ask if anyone else has run into this.

Thanks,

Steve,

I assume that this is one of those 6-in-1 programming cables that you must plug in the correct adapter based on the radio that you are going to program. That would mean that you use a different adapter for the UV-5R than you do the FT-60. My guess is that the adapter for the FT-60 has gone bad. It is probably only a coincidence that it happened when the USB end was swapped out with a module containing a CP2102 chip. You might check the FT-60 adapter with a volt-ohm-meter for shorts or opens.

Jim KC9HI