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Baofeng Baofeng DM-1701 physical connection issue Windows 11
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varagold
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Nope, there is no DR-1801 mention, anywhere.
It's a common problem we have on the OpenGD77 forum, as Windows installs/updates the wrong driver, and that breaks the DFU mode for such radios (we need it for the firmware update process, not the codeplug reading/writing, as it's done using the serial com (ACM)).
It's a common problem we have on the OpenGD77 forum, as Windows installs/updates the wrong driver, and that breaks the DFU mode for such radios (we need it for the firmware update process, not the codeplug reading/writing, as it's done using the serial com (ACM)).
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DR-1701 mistyped and corrected
varagold
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Neither.
Another random reference ?
Another random reference ?
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Baofeng DM-1701 physical connection issue Windows 11
I didn't realize it was referring to a specific cable, the DR-1701, until now.
^^^^^ That is what I also discovered. You need a cable with the FTDI chip for Windows 11 support. It seems, from what I've read, there is a sea of programming cables with counterfeit chips and Windows 11 can detect them and refuse to work with them. Counterfeiters have met the challenge by providing older driver versions with their bootleg chip but Windows 11 updater will catch this and reinstall the current version (of course they don't mention this in their Amazon product listing). It is aggravating because even the legitimate programming cable I bought from BTECH years ago is now flagged by Win11 as counterfeit.
I simply paid the $22 for the BTECH cable and away I went.
Confirming you used the Win10 driver in Win11? I tried that and it won't install.
I will add that I'm running W11 in Parallels on a Mac M2, so I'm sure that has a lot to do with my trouble. Trying to work though it with no success, so far.
Background: I am very happy with my bargain basement DMR HTs, the Radioddity RD-5R and its clone, the updated Baofeng DM-5R II. I even found an OpenGD77 enthusiast to upgrade the RAM chip in both from 1 MB to 16 MB and now I can download the worldwide Digital ID database into both: thank you Charlie (He even through in a pi-star and programmed it into OpenGD77 for me in return for my giving him a RD-5R I found on eBay).
I want to help other Hams get into DMR inexpensively, but neither of these HTs are available any more (too bad, as having the UV-5R format, they share all my other accessories, including my high capacity batteries).
So the next logical choice is the Baofeng DM-1701, which I just picked up from AliExpress for $50 all in. I want to get comfortable with it, before I start to recommend it or even gift it to others.
My first step is to always download the existing codeplug and firmware, so I downloaded the Baofeng software to do just that.
Unfortunately I ran into Windows 11 problems, so I am working with another computer and Windows 10 works fine.
Once I now install OpenGD77 firmware, I would like to go back and solve the Windows 11 problem, so that I have this software all centralized on the same computer.
Is there an update to the solution to this problem here?
I want to help other Hams get into DMR inexpensively, but neither of these HTs are available any more (too bad, as having the UV-5R format, they share all my other accessories, including my high capacity batteries).
So the next logical choice is the Baofeng DM-1701, which I just picked up from AliExpress for $50 all in. I want to get comfortable with it, before I start to recommend it or even gift it to others.
My first step is to always download the existing codeplug and firmware, so I downloaded the Baofeng software to do just that.
Unfortunately I ran into Windows 11 problems, so I am working with another computer and Windows 10 works fine.
Once I now install OpenGD77 firmware, I would like to go back and solve the Windows 11 problem, so that I have this software all centralized on the same computer.
Is there an update to the solution to this problem here?
I owned a 1701, not a bad radio, dmr on local public service was fine but no real dmr ham in my area so I sold. I had no trouble programming with OpenGD77 on win11 but I did some tweaking but frankly sorry I do not remember what but it was simple. Maybe someone else has an idea. For the price the 1701 is a great value.
