Ordered a couple different FDC radios recently to play with and also picked up a programming cable + programming software cd from radiogearpro.com.
The cable is excellent quality and is of the two prong variety that plugs into the h/t mic+speaker jacks. I find it interesting though that the jack spacing varies among the various FDC models - something to watch out for.
The software cd included was just one that they had burned themselves, nice collection of software on it for most of the chinese h/t's though. One thing to watch out for, when you first plug the usb cable into your computer, windows will recognize it as a Motorola Modem and it just won't work. I don't do windows but the corrective procedure involved removing the device driver and then running the pegasus .exe driver installation. A quick reboot and all was well.
The first radio I programmed was a new FDC FD-278B. Haven't had time to play with it yet but it's a very basic computer progammable only (no keypad) radio. It is quite a bit smaller than the FD-150's that I've had great luck with in the past but feels a lot more solid, we shall see. Interesting feature, it has a rotary channel knob that announces the channel number in either English or Chinese, Chinese amuses me.
That is all.
The cable is excellent quality and is of the two prong variety that plugs into the h/t mic+speaker jacks. I find it interesting though that the jack spacing varies among the various FDC models - something to watch out for.
The software cd included was just one that they had burned themselves, nice collection of software on it for most of the chinese h/t's though. One thing to watch out for, when you first plug the usb cable into your computer, windows will recognize it as a Motorola Modem and it just won't work. I don't do windows but the corrective procedure involved removing the device driver and then running the pegasus .exe driver installation. A quick reboot and all was well.
The first radio I programmed was a new FDC FD-278B. Haven't had time to play with it yet but it's a very basic computer progammable only (no keypad) radio. It is quite a bit smaller than the FD-150's that I've had great luck with in the past but feels a lot more solid, we shall see. Interesting feature, it has a rotary channel knob that announces the channel number in either English or Chinese, Chinese amuses me.
That is all.
