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Pros & Cons
Cons
Just don't expect it in a hurry.
Highlights
Quality
Very easy to use, factory quality cable!
Simple to use and interfaces with the free chirp software perfectly.
Caveat: this is cheaply made; there are many reports of the usb cover falling off.
While i am still learning radio programming; i have come across poor quality cables for programming various brands of radios.
Price
Not expensive at all and compatible with many of my radios.
In any case, this is a solid product for a great price.
If it's anything over $10, i don't think it would be worth it.
And even at around $10, for as popular as the uv5r is/was i think it would be high.
Packaging/appearance
The construction of this cable seems to be good quality out of the packaging.
Competitiveness
The baofeng software is very similar to chirp and is very easy as well.
This cable makes programming a baofeng or any of several other brands of radios very easy.
Seems better just to go to baofeng's website.
Slightly annoying thing about the manufacturer's software that i've noticed is that not only is every brand uses their own, but... Read More
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- How are reviewers describing this item?
radio, good, great, easy and able. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 13.8% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 74 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 17 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The cord has a chemical smell to it to let everybody know
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you have chinese brand radios baofeng tidtd talkpod etc this is the cable you need to program them i
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had an older tidradio usb cables and didnt even need to update the driver
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This cable just worked out of the box
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Starting from scratch you will need a driver for your computer to talk to this driver
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Honestly i didnt even try the cd it came with i dont even have a cdrom drive anymore but the driver you need is ch340 aka ch340
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The rest is up to the programming software you use whether chirp or the manufacturers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Slightly annoying thing about the manufacturers software that ive noticed is that not only is every brand uses their own but also every different model has its own too even though they all look practically the same
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