On 6/3/2016 9:39 PM, David Pruett wrote:
Fritz,
I would agree with some of the other respondents who recommended
sticking with adapters using a real FTDI chip.
Unfortunately there are a lot of products with counterfeit FTDI chips.
There have been reports that some ham applications don't work well with
the counterfeit parts. It is probably less likely to be a problem with a
Yaesu CAT application than say sending CW.
A while back FTDI did a driver update that bricked counterfeit chips. I
had that happen to one of the cheap ones I got off eBay or Amazon. FTDI
backed down but if you get a new cable make sure you update your FTDI
drivers just in case.
Some more discussion on the counterfeit chips:
http://hackaday.com/?s=FTDI
--
Gary Sutcliffe, W9XT
www.w9xt.com
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