Tony, you just hit the nail on the head:
"once I found the right driver".
I bought 3 cables. Because I did not know any better, the first two were
no-names, one advertised for the Wouxon, the other advertised for the
Baofeng. I could never get either of them to work even though I tried half
a dozen drivers which I found at various sources. In the meantime I had
read often to beware of cheap cables, so I searched for and found an
original Baofeng cable, which came with a driver. Worked just fine - but
there was no Win-8 drivers, just Win-7 and earlier versions of windows, all
the way back to Win-98.
You save about 5 bucks when buying a no-name.
You also are playing Russian Roulette with about 3 bullets in your
6-shooter.
I strongly recommend people play it safe. You save a lot on the radio, so
don't skimp on the cable.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tony
Lelieveld
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 8:45 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Programming Cheap Chinese Handhelds
Hi Rick,
Thanks for your very nice explanation about the programming of Wouxun and
other radios. I have had a Wouxun for the last 4 years and love the radio.
I too had problems mainly because of a faulty driver. Once I fixed that, I
have had no problems anymore with either the KG-UV2D or the KG-UV Commander
programs. They both work fine.
One caution that many users had problems with. Make absolutely sure that
the programming cable is ** FULLY INSERTED ** into the socket on the side of
the radio. Once it is in, give it an extra push to be sure it is fully
inserted. For its price, you can't beat those radios hi...hi.
73, Tony VE3DWI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>;
<TenTec_Eagle@yahoogroups.com>; <Ten-Tec-Omni-VII@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 11:44 AM
Subject: [TenTec] OT: Programming Cheap Chinese Handhelds
>I know this is way off topic but perhaps it will help others wanting to
>program their new Chinese dual-band handheld FM radio.
>
> I own a Baofeng UV-5R and a Wouxon KG-UVD1P, neither of which has ever
> had any useful channels programmed in.
> I decided to finally address this.
>
> As it turns out, it is very easy, just a bit tedious typing in all of
> the channel/frequency information.
>
> Slight correction: it is easy now, after spending 3 full days trying 3
> different programming cables, 4 different programming software
> packages and half a dozen or more cable drivers. For me it is now
> easy.
>
> AND I decided to create a web page showing how to do this.
> It evolved into 5 pages, but as I said, totally easy, just tedious.
>
> Shortcut: if you can find someone else's .CSV file and start with it,
> you will only have to modify a few channels and you'll be in business.
> Unfortunately Region One has different repeater channels than Region
> Two, so unless you live in Europe, you cannot use my file.
>
> Here is the link: http://www.dj0ip.de/chinese-handhelds/
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>
>
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