Baofeng Programming Cable for BAOFENG UV-5R/5RA/5R Plus/5RE, UV3R Plus, BF-888S, 5R EX, 5RX3, GA-2S
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| Price | $16.99 |
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| Driver Installation | Auto install | Install manually | Install manually |
| FTDI Chipset | ✓ |
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| Work with macOS system? | ✓ |
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| Read/Write Time | Min 8s | Min 30s | Min 30s |
Original Baofeng Programming Cable
Compatible system
Windows 7, Windows 10, 64 Bit
Work with
Baofeng
UV-5R/UV-5RX3/UV-5RA/UV-5R Plus/UV-5RE, UV3R Plus, BF-888S/BF-88A
UV-82/UV-82L
Radioddity
GA-2S/GA-5S/
Specification: Baofeng Programming Cable for BAOFENG UV-5R/5RA/5R Plus/5RE, UV3R Plus, BF-888S, 5R EX, 5RX3, GA-2S
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10 reviews for Baofeng Programming Cable for BAOFENG UV-5R/5RA/5R Plus/5RE, UV3R Plus, BF-888S, 5R EX, 5RX3, GA-2S
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$9.14
Mr. Guest –
A programming cable for Baofeng hand held ham radios. Comes with a cable and a disk for your pc. I downloaded Chirp from the internet as there is a new version available. Chirp is a program that simplifies programming a ham radio. It’s waaaay faster and easier than hand jamming using the radio’s keypad. Works great, and no issues installing on a PC. Worth the money especially if you have multiple channels to add to your radio. Would buy again.
Josh L –
Driver was automatically picked up and assigned when I plugged the cable in. No need for CD or manual driver install, which I was concerned I’d have to do. It was a simple, straightforward process to use the cable and everything functioned seamlessly (win 11 home machine). Would definitely buy again. Way better than having to manual sweet channels.
Danny –
I had very little trouble getting this cable to work. Had I heeded the advice to toss the included CD and download everything from miklor dot com (or the CHIRP site) I would have had less trouble.NOTE: For those of you who are familiar with serial communications (and perhaps some that are not) it may help to know that the cable is just a USB to Serial adapter. The driver install is all about the cable, NOT the radio. You do not need to use the radio while you are getting the cable installed and working. The CHIRP software will handle the communications to the radio once the cable is working. If you install the cable driver and the cable is plugged in, look in Device Manager. If you do NOT have a yellow triangle (or any other warning) on the Prolific USB to Serial port in Device Manager, you SHOULD be good to go.Here’s the short version for the ADD folks ;-)Toss the included CD, download the Prolific driver from Miklor dot com, install the driver and plug in the cable. Make a note of what COM port is assigned to the cable. Download the latest daily build of CHIRP. Enjoy!Here’s the details of what I did. This may help some of you who tried the included CD first like I did.(just in case you don’t know… you can open up Device Manager by right clicking on Computer and then opening Device Manager)1. I tried installing the Vista driver from the included CD which included plugging the cable into the laptop and radio. It failed (yellow triangle in Device Manager).2. I installed the latest daily build of CHIRP (this didn’t help my cable problem, but it didn’t hurt anything either). If I was doing this all over again I would probably wait until the cable was working before I installed CHIRP. I really don’t think it matters much when you install CHIRP.3. I removed the driver from Device Manager, I checked the Uninstall Driver box. (I would recommend you skip steps 1 & 3)4. I un-plugged the cable from the radio and the laptop.5. I downloaded the Prolific 3.2.0.0 driver from Miklor.6. I installed the Prolific 3.2.0.0 driver.7. I plugged the cable into the laptop, Windows recognized it and installed the device (cable) successfully. (BTW: it assigned COM5 to the cable, you will need to know this later)8. I opened up CHIRP.9. With the radio turned off I plugged the cable into the radio.10. I turned on the radio.11. I downloaded the data from the radio (Radio –> Download from radio). I got a dialog box asking for settings. I set the COM Port to match the cable (COM5). I set the Vendor to Baofeng and the Model to UV5R and clicked OK.12. I got the Cloning Progress box with progress bar. When that was done I got the CHIRP spreadsheet view. I was able to edit the config and Save it as a file. (I saved a backup of the default config before I made any changes).13. I uploaded the data back to the radio (Radio –> Upload to radio).14. I got the Cloning Progress box again. When that was done I unplugged the radio.That’s it!BTW: I tried the Import from Repeater Book and I was impressed at how well it worked. I recommend trying that.
4x4naps –
Works great. Got this for a new uv5r . Makes it easy to program the radio.
Mark S. –
Works like charm on my UV-5R, and also will work on the Queshang models as well. Mine came with the drivers on a mini-disc in case you don’t have access to the required driver for your operating system. Works with CHIRP and other 3rd party programming software. No picture needed, but be sure to follow the instructions for your specific model of radio.
Jared Johnson –
This cable did exactly what I needed it to fast and easy. It loaded and synced with my Baofeng UV-5R and helped me load and program.Did exactly what it said it would do! Can’t beat that!
Chris –
It’s great! Looks to be authentic but the brand is from China anyway and I’m no expert. Worked as it should, no problems, simple to use.
That IT Guy –
Works as it should
Adam Roths –
Works as it should and works for all my K type radios.
Boston5.56 –
The media could not be loaded. No problems. No issues. Programming cable worked as it should right out of the box. No driver install necessary. Programmed my Baofeng UV5R with no problem.