The USB cable will emulate a com port when the driver is properly installed. You can see what com port is assigned to a given device under Device Management in Windows.

-KE8EXY

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com> wrote:
Most of these radios require serial (a COM port in Windows) communications for programming. Most modern computers do not have a legacy serial port so a USB programming cable containing a chip used with a device driver to create a virtual COM port.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 11:54 AM Jack Wimberly <wimberly.jack@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone have experience programing this radio using the USB cable
supplied with it? My biggest problem is that the software is looking for
a com port connection. Is there any work around for this? Thanks.

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