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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.

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<blockquote data-quote="GLR" data-source="post: 211157" data-attributes="member: 5531">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.&nbsp; 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&#039;s though.&nbsp; 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&#039;t work.&nbsp; I don&#039;t do windows but the corrective procedure involved removing the device driver and then running the pegasus .exe driver installation.&nbsp; A quick reboot and all was well.The first radio I programmed was a new FDC FD-278B.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t had time to play with it yet but it&#039;s a very basic computer progammable only (no keypad) radio.&nbsp; It is quite a bit smaller than the FD-150&#039;s that I&#039;ve had great luck with in the past but feels a lot more solid, we shall see.&nbsp; Interesting feature, it has a rotary channel knob that announces the channel number in either English or Chinese, Chinese amuses me.That is all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GLR, post: 211157, member: 5531"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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