USB to serial bridge cables seems to be common with ham radio equipment. Stables of Scrannel Swan were not prolific said the girl , after a moment. Driver , however , wore an expectant air , school - mistress saw the old. Our 'PL2303 Code 10 Fix' program will remove all incompatible drivers, make a change in the registry so that Windows can never update the driver without your permission, and install the Version 3.3.2.102 compatible drivers.Ok, this post is a bit off what I normally talk about, but I wanted to add it so I’d have a spot to point people back to, and more importantly be able to refer back to it myself. The best 64-bit driver I have found that works with all the 'Prolific' adapters is old Version 3.3.2.102.Another popular maker along these lines is Wouxun.Prolific Usb To Serial Comm Port Driver Windows 8.1 Code 10. One of the most prolific manufacturers is a Chinese company who makes very inexpensive (some might even say cheap) radios marketed under the names of Baofeng and BTech. There are a variety of hand held radios on the market. As I’m also a “techie” I’m often asked to help people program their radios using the computer. Prolific is the name of the development company that makes driver for USB to serial adaptors.Some of you may know I am an amateur “ham” radio operator, my call sign is N4IXT.
Old Prolific Serial Bridge Cables/Prolific/All5x86x64/2.0.0.18/old/Prolific-All5x86x64-2.0.0.18-old-drp.zip.This post describes not only the steps to program, but to also install the software you’ll need to program these radios and others. If this driver does not work correctly, it is recommended to install its older counterpart using the methods described by me in this material.Download USBVID067B&PID2303 device driver for Windows 7, XP, 10, 8. It uses a COM port to connect to a user PC. These Chinese companies cloned the chips and their code, indeed the cables even report to Windows that they are from Prolific.Thus when you plug in the cable, it tells Windows “Hey I’m a Prolific cable”, and Windows goes out and downloads and installs the latest Prolific drives. The company who originally created these chips was called Prolific. Now if you were like me, and installed CHIRP, plugged in the cable, and hooked it to your radio, you probably got a lot of error messages.Inside the programming cable are some chips that help the computer talk to the radio. Sometimes the cable comes with the radio, other times you’ll need to purchase it separately. It has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, although for this article we are going to focus on Windows.You’ll also need the cable for your model of radio. The software most people use is called CHIRP, available from. The solution then is to install the most recent version that works. While rather cryptic, what this really translates into is “Hey, we’re trying to use the Prolific driver, but it’s telling us this isn’t a Prolific device.”This puts us in a bind, as we need to use the driver, but the latest version doesn’t work. Note that it has a big yellow exclamation mark.Right click on the Prolific driver and pick Properties.Right in the middle under Device Status we see the problem: This device cannot start. (If you are on an older version of Windows you can open up Device Manager through the Administration panel).Scroll down the list to the Ports area and you’ll see the Prolific driver listed. On Windows 10 just go to the Cortona search area (next to the Start menu) and type in Device Manager. Open up CHIRP, then plug in your cable, and (with the radio off) plug it into your radio, and then turn the radio on.CHIRP opens up with a big blank screen. Running ChirpOK, so now you have CHIRP installed, and the correct version of Prolific, it’s time to load up your radio with frequencies. Right clicking and picking properties should now display “The device is working properly”. At the very end of the driver name is the COM port it’s using, in parenthesis.The first time you use CHIRP you’ll probably have to key in the COM port, just type COM3, COM4, or whatever it was.I also want to add a quick note for eagle eyed viewers. If you aren’t sure of the COM port, go back to Device Manager using the previous instructions, and expand the Ports. This let’s CHIRP get a correct image of the radio type and what its current settings are.Click on the Radio in the menus, then from the dropdown pick Radio, Download From Radio.Next it wants to know what COM port the cable is using, who made the radio, and what model. Here, I’ve picked the UV-5R. The radio I’m plugging in here is a Baofeng.Once you pick the vendor, the Model drop down will now be populated with a list of all the models CHIRP supports for that Vendor. Again you can use device manager, like I did, to determine what the correct COM port is for your computer, and if you use multiple computers your COM port may be different on each.So once you’ve entered the correct COM port, you’ll see a drop down list for the Vendor, and CHIRP supports a LOT of radio companies. On the computer I took the above screen shot on, the computer where I have it working, Prolific is using COM3. If you look back to the original image from the Device Manager you’ll note it read COM4 at the end. Once you click OK, it will start transferring the data. You may want to click the “Do not show this next time” option first, so you won’t see this every time you update your radio.Next you will see a reminder on how to hookup your radio.Basically, turn the radio off, hook it to the computer using the cable, then turn it on. I’ve personally programmed dozens of radios with CHIRP for myself and others, so you can safely click YES. Don’t worry about it, CHIRP has been used on hundreds of thousands, if not millions of these radios. Once done just click OK.Basically it’s CHIRP’s way of saying “Use at your own risk”. Unlock external hard driveIn this example it’s for Shelby County AL. I generally use the radio vendor, then model, then the area where the frequencies are for. This will save it as an IMG file. (Click on the image below, or any of the images in this article, to open up a bigger version).The first thing you should do is save what is there by using the File, Save menu option. You could also look up the frequencies online and cut/paste into CHIRP. You can of course do it manually, typing each row supplying the data. This lets me track changes over time, or go back to an older version if I need to.Now you are ready to start entering frequencies. If I later go update it, I’ll do a Save As, and update the date. You can just open their file and copy/paste into yours. CHIRP will let you open up multiple IMG files at the same time, and display them as tabs across the top. Just be sure your cursor is sitting on empty row in the frequency list or else you may overwrite some of your existing frequencies.The final option is to copy from an IMG file a friend with a similar radio has sent you. There is a list of multiple sites you can import from, each will let you search on a variety of things like your state, county, or zip code to find frequencies near you. In the Radio menu is an option “Import from data source”. Now click on the Settings tab.The overwhelming majority of settings you should leave alone unless you have a specific need. The Memories tab is what you are currently on. If you look to the very left, there are two tabs. Note that you don’t have to import from the radio before you upload back to the radio every time. I don’t find Channel very useful, but feel free to experiment and pick what you like.As you will see it’s not big deal to make a change and re-upload to the radio. I tend to prefer Name as it shows the name (such as the repeater call sign), but you could alternately show the frequency of the repeater. Your choices are Name, Frequency, and Channel. This indicates what is shown on the display. Do note these are for the Baofeng, what you see on the Settings tab will change with each radio type.On the Basic settings you’ll see Display Mode A and B. Just for fun I use the different colors but use what works for you. But more on uploading in a moment.The other thing on for this radio you might want to look at is the background color for the display, this Baofeng can have three different background colors, and you can set the Standby, Receive (RX) and Transmit (TX) colors independently.
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