I used a Sandisk Ultra 8 GB card as it was the smallest I could buy locally. You can insert a microSD card into the radio for the transfer of programming information (and for other storage). I can’t tell you anything about that cable, because I used the easier option, which is to use a microSD card and a card reader. The USB one is SCU-19 and you have to buy it separately. Yes, if you must use a cable, it is not the one that comes with your FT2D.
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#G4hfq software transferrable driver#
You have to keep using Device Manager to load an older version of that driver that doesn’t care what chip you have. In reality, most cables you can find use a Chinese rip-off copy of that chip, which does not work with the latest Prolific driver that is downloaded by Windows. With many of these radios that need programming software, you will read about using a special cable that contains a special “Prolific” brand chip. I just went ahead ordered the ADMS-FT2D program from RT Systems for immediate download. There is another program by G4HFQ that was mentioned, but I did not try it. I will give a concrete example further down and you will agree.
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I took the precaution to read discussions of this procedure and most people seemed to agree that the free program ADMS-8 on Yaesu’s website is “no good”. The FT2D cannot read a comma-separated-variable (CSV) file directly, so you need programming software to output the information to BACKUP.DAT then you import it to the radio.