On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Ronny Julian <k4rjjradio@gmail.com> wrote:

Yep but the FT-60 uses the other type without threads. Nothing wrong with my cable as it has worked fine before on these two machines when I had XP on them. This has to be a COM port permissions issue or a problem with the radio or maybe the program install.

The cable I have is one from KAWAMALL of eBay. I have bought 6 cables from them and not a bad one yet.

Ronny,

If the cable has one of those unauthorized copies of a Prolific USB-to-serial chip in it, then you are likely using the wrong driver. Windows 7 automatically updates to the latest driver and the latest driver has code to detect the chip and refuses to work with it.

What is needed is an older driver that does not have this code. The version recommended most in this situation is v3.2.0.0. Links for this driver and instructions to install it are available here: http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-Drivers.html

Jim KC9HI