<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span></span> </div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>It is "from" KC5NYH, but has all sorts of calls tagged and locations.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>73, Steve, K9DCI</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Steve Noskowicz <noskosteve@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'TAPR APRS
Mailing List' <aprssig@tapr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] IC-706 CT-17 cable<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4296847305"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span></span><div><span></span> </div><div><span>A few years ago, I thought it was the Prolific chips that were bootlegged in China. Have trhey now moved to copying the FTDI chips too?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>73, Steve, K9DCI</span></div><div><span>I've had no probs with FTDI chips.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Sorry if this is a dupe. mailer seems to be hickupping...</span></div><div><br clear="none"></div> <div id="yiv4296847305yqt90409"
class="yiv4296847305yqt2375125931"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="yiv4296847305hr"></div> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kent Hufford <khufford@atlanticbb.net><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Steve Noskowicz' <noskosteve@yahoo.com>; 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' <aprssig@tapr.org> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:19 PM<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [aprssig] IC-706 CT-17 cable<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div
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#yiv4296847305 </style><div><div class="yiv4296847305WordSection1"><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The driver software for the USB adapter.</span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">WARNING WILL ROBINSON..</span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some cheap USB to serial adapters or USB to Radio adapters (Wouxun/Baufang, etc) use a Chinese version of the FIDI adapter. If you have one of these cables and a modern Windows software, the Windows software will see you Chinese fake FIDI adapter and try and load a real US licensed version of the driver, which will show up with a yellow flag in Device manager and will not work. </span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You then have to trick modern Windows into loading the fake Chinese FIDI driver to run your adapter.</span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some of the more expensive Chinese adapters use a real US Fidi chip and will run with the real FIDI driver.</span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kent</span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">KQ4KK</span></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div id="yiv4296847305yqt19212" class="yiv4296847305yqt8310521097"><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium;
border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> aprssig-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Noskowicz<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:57 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] IC-706 CT-17 cable</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I see that $13.29 is a very reasopnable price, but I wonder what's on the CD.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Kriss A Kliegle <<a href="mailto:kliegle@myfairpoint.net" shape="rect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:kliegle@myfairpoint.net">kliegle@myfairpoint.net</a>><br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" shape="rect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2014 7:19 PM<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [aprssig] IC-706 CT-17 cable</span><span></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span> </span></div><div id="yiv4296847305"><div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span>Here’s a link from Amazon:</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span><a title="http://www.amazon.com/Interface-Ic-706-Ic-781-Ic-820-Ic-r7100/dp/B00G8IM8QC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390612548&sr=8-1&keywords=CI-V+Icom++IC-706" href="http://www.amazon.com/Interface-Ic-706-Ic-781-Ic-820-Ic-r7100/dp/B00G8IM8QC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390612548&sr=8-1&keywords=CI-V+Icom++IC-706" shape="rect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Interface-Ic-706-Ic-781-Ic-820-Ic-r7100/dp/B00G8IM8QC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390612548&sr=8-1&keywords=CI-V+Icom++IC-706</a></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span>Here’s a list of all available:</span></div></div><div><div style="background:
white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span><a title="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=CI-V%20Icom%20IC-706" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=CI-V%20Icom%20IC-706" shape="rect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=CI-V%20Icom%20IC-706</a></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span>\</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span>73 de Kriss KA1GJU</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="yiv4296847305MsoNormal"><span><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">aprssig mailing list<br
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