Hello,
I have a expanded my FRS two way radio collection with a pair of Luiton LT-458 radios. I bought them mainly due to the good reviews, fast charging USB port, and price. I downloaded the programming software from Luiton (redownloaded it on a different computer as well), plugged in the PC (tried both PCs I have), and turned the radio on. All I get when I try to read or write the radio is “Read Data Fail”. I can’t find anything anywhere about this error, and Luiton has been no help so far. Any ideas, suggestions, or advice? Thanks in advance!
i have the same radio, i bought a Serial cable to usb on amazon but it still tells theres no com port. but i am seeing i have com 1. an i agree luiton company has not been any help i have emailed them several times with no help.
Sorry for reviving this, but I had the same problem and the solution was to press the PTT button while turning the radio on and sometimes it will read like that or also pressing the PTT button while clicking on the “read from radio” button on the V12 software. Also on chirp it just reads the radio immediately.
What I haven’t been able to do is to get the scrambler/beat shift function to work even though it has been turned on or “enabled” on both V12 and Chirp.
It’s common for the scramblers to be missing - chipset changes and no changes to the adverts.
Whenever you get problems - it’s always worth checking what windows thinks is attached - in device manager you should see the connect driver - or a message saying it’s not loaded or is wrong. It’s also possible the cable is for a different model - they looks the same. If chirp reads or writes then probably a CPS issue - a simple mismatch. Sometimes one version of software, with a different serial cable and different radio version means it just refuses to work. I’ve just cured a retevis problem by a different, but identical cable with a slightly different wiring convention!