On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 8:29 PM Chuck Barnett charlesfbarnett@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Kenneth, for your time and help. Jim's instructions were enough to get me in.
This is the cable that D.J.J.Ring Jr. advised me to get in place of the other. Amazon had it for $22.xx. Until I looked at the listing more closely, just now, I had no idea what chip was in it. Now I see that the name contains FTDI.
"Once you have the correct driver loaded, plug your cable into a USB port, in Device Manager, look under Ports (Comm and LPT) to find which port Windows has assigned to your cable."
I've looked in Device Manager several times in this process and have never seen Ports... This last time, the only one that showed up when I clicked on the Find Radio or Download from Radio command was COM3, and no error messages. Then it started to clone
Thanks, again!
Chuck K7CFB
This is what it looks like for my Prolific type chip based programming cable. The entry for an FTDI chip should be similar. If you have more than one serial device, the best way to find the one for your cable would be to open Device Manager first, then plug in the programming cable so you can watch for the new entry that appears.
Jim KC9HI
