Baofeng BF-T1 Prog cable

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Hello Group,

I recently purchased a BF-T1 with cable and most places said that the driver was a prolific PL-2303, which was not the case. I tried this lead in 3 different PC's off different OpSys

but none of them would recognise it and tried different versions of prolific drivers but to no avail.

I decided to go to the Miklor to see what he had to say and said that some Baofeng prog cables use the WCH (CH340/341) chipsets. So I decided to give it a go and bingo....

it worked !!!! Also you have to plug in the prog lead BEFORE you instal the driver, which you never normally do either. I have used a lot of prog leads and never heard of this chipset.

Moral to the story is that there may be more than one chipset used in a particular lead due to chip supply and different manufactures of that prog lead.

I highly recommend the Miklor web page as a good source of radio info & tips, link below to the cable drivers page

USB Cable Drivers FTDI / Prolific / SiLabs / WCH Microsoft (tm) Drivers May 2013, 2015, 2019 Rev 7/2020 John K3NXU Jim KC9HI

miklor.com

Regards,

Doug VK2XLJ

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Doug . . .

On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 01:43:26 +0000, "Doug J" <vk2xlj@...>
wrote:

Moral to the story is that there may be more than one chipset used in a particular lead due to chip supply and different manufactures of that prog lead. I used a cable with the chipset you mentioned. It has something like 8
cable ends to be a more or less universal cable, and it worked fine
once I sorted out where to get a driver for it. 

That makes 3 chipsets I've heard about for these. The FDTI chipset is
what comes in the current programming cable from Baofeng's store on
Amazon.com. It works very well too. I bought the "octopus" cable just
to try it out but I already had the official cable from Baofeng. 

Donald KX8K


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