Highlights
Quality
The cable is well-built and durable, ensuring a reliable connection between your radio and computer.
The new cable is well-built and i found it easy to program my baofeng rm5 radios with it.
Wiggle) which cause the connector to be inserted at a tiny angle, thus, full electrical connection is not made.
All you have to do it program it with this cable under the uv-17pro in chirp and it transfered everything the first try!
Price
For the price, i'm happy, and this cable is now part of my backup ht's mini go-kit.
After trying others, this works great at a good price.
They just aren't worth the headache to save a couple of dollars.
I am not sure how long it will last, but it was not expensive.
Packaging/appearance
The package comes with a cd/drivers, but i did not use the cd.
Competitiveness
I used this cable to program two different baofeng radios and it worked great with chirp.
I have also not found any compatibility issues when using this cable with radios from other manufacturers as long as they also ... Read More
I have another programming cable with the ftdi chipset that worked both applications - however, it cost 3 times as much as this cable.
The baofeng software is a little non-intuitive but there is an open source software called chirp that is much better.
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- This product had a total of 973 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 17 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Works fine with chirp i did not try the included software on the mini disc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Was going to get this programming cable from another source for 4 times as much before check on amazon
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This cable lets you program your amateur radio transceiver by using your computer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You will also need software like chirp
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This cable is more than a normal usb cable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Have to make sure its plugged into the radio
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Needs to snap into place pretty hard
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
First time had to press very hard to properly seat connector