Monday, January 9, 2012

Re: [HamBrewers] Fw: [ham-radio-deluxe] Prolific confirms Counterfeit Prolific ICs in USB cables originating from China

 

Stacy,
 
Same experience here and a FTDI based CAT interface resolved the issue to connect my ICOM 821H to HRD and wisp DDE. I have also noticed that geneuine prolific chipset based converters also do not work satisfactorily with some of the apps for HAM Radio.
 
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
 

From: Stacy Williams <slateblue69@gmail.com>
To: "HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com" <HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: VUHAMS <vuhams@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [HamBrewers] Fw: [ham-radio-deluxe] Prolific confirms Counterfeit Prolific ICs in USB cables originating from China

 
Hiya all

Sometime last year, I believe that I came across one of these counterfeit chips bought off eBay to drive my TS-480 via USB.  Tried to rename the chip by editing te kext file.  My Mac did not like the chip or recognise it so would not allow connection whatever i did!  

In the end, I bought a nice cat lead with the ftdi chipset which solved the problem.

Regards & 73
m0wsa
Stacy Williams

On Monday, 9 January 2012, Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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>
> fyi
>  
> 73
> Nitin [VU3TYG]
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Mike Flowers <mike.flowers@gmail.com>
> To: ham-radio-deluxe@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 10:53 AM
> Subject: [ham-radio-deluxe] Prolific confirms Counterfeit Prolific ICs in USB cables originating from China
>
>  
> This article may be of interest to those buying presumably FTDI chip-based
> USB/Serial cables on eBay and elsewhere:
>
> http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?328002-Prolific-confirms-Counterfeit-Pr
> olific-ICs-in-USB-cables-originating-from-China
>
> Caveat emptor .
>
> - 73 de Mike, K6MKF
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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