[rhinestonecowboy]

Just to be clear mate
There's only one hardwear type for clones
Revision B
But there's clones that can be used with newer softwear versions
To use this newer versions of softwears you need a "moded" usually clone hardwear
Otherwise this will not works

I think you have got what i have said wrong he knows this is a rev " B " Hardware v5 pcb = was just a simple chinese cheap clone

That's all. Maybe your frined was cheated by someone who told him that this "New OP-COM" has new hardwears or he didn't understood well
If you need I can opend it up to shared pics of the hardwears to see that there's no difference between this kind of clones and the one that it is used with OP-COM China Clone
Good luck

He understood very well but it was the price he was cheated on
PS! pictures are already available off the hardware on the forum