KK4ELO
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I have a cable that has recently stopped working. I popped the cover open and noticed a wire loose. Does anyone have a picture or any knowledge of what color goes where?
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Baofeng Uv-82hp programming cable
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nd5y
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Unless you tell us the exact make and model of programming cable nobody is going to be able to help you.
Posting a picture of the board in your cable might help identify it.
Just because it works with a UV-82HP means nothing. There are many different cables made by different manufacturers that all have the same pinout and all work with Baofeng and other radios.
You can't go by wire color. The same manufacturer could use different multiconductor cables from different suppliers with different wire colors connected to different pins in different production runs.
There could be more wires in the cable than are actually used. Are you sure it broke off or was just unused? You need to trace the wire to the connector pin.
Posting a picture of the board in your cable might help identify it.
Just because it works with a UV-82HP means nothing. There are many different cables made by different manufacturers that all have the same pinout and all work with Baofeng and other radios.
You can't go by wire color. The same manufacturer could use different multiconductor cables from different suppliers with different wire colors connected to different pins in different production runs.
There could be more wires in the cable than are actually used. Are you sure it broke off or was just unused? You need to trace the wire to the connector pin.
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nd5y
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It looks to me like the cable only uses 3 wires; transmit data, receive data and ground.
The 3 connected wires don't look like they are soldered very well but hard to tell from the pic.
The 4th loose wire was probably never connected to anything.
Something else is probably wrong.
Does the cable work with other radios?
Does the cable work with other computers?
Are you sure the jacks on the radio aren't dirty or damaged?
The 3 connected wires don't look like they are soldered very well but hard to tell from the pic.
The 4th loose wire was probably never connected to anything.
Something else is probably wrong.
Does the cable work with other radios?
Does the cable work with other computers?
Are you sure the jacks on the radio aren't dirty or damaged?
KK4ELO
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Jack's are clean. Only have the one radio. Using a new computer. The old one I had is so messed up it takes 10 minutes to boot up, and several minutea just to get chirp to open. So it's in the closet. Using windows 10 on the new laptop. Works perfect for my btech radio, but cannot find a com port for the uv-82. I don't remember the error code but it says something about path couldnt be found (or routed) don't remember exactly. The cable worked last time I used it but that was a year or so ago.
nd5y
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The com port has nothing to do with the radio, it's the chip in the cable. You probably have a software or driver problem. I don't use Windows so I can't help with that. If you copy and paste the exact error code then somebody else might be able to help.
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