Found a guide online that pointed me to tenwayradio.com/download-center with instructions on installing the CH-340 driver. Downloaded, unzipped, and ran the program and voila! I now have COM3.

Next step is loading local repeaters into CHIRP.

BTW, this is supposedly a tri-band but it won’t allow freqs on the 1.25 M band???

Thank you for the responses. Sorry I didn’t find this sooner!

Bob

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