I hear ya Jim,
I couldn't use my track ball and had to switch to my finger pad, but I'm just happy I got the repeaters assigned to my channels now.
Found some info on how to manually input the repeaters directly on the HT and it seems a lot less complicated than using the cable!
Glad I found you guys....you've been a big help.
On Sunday, December 7, 2014, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Thomas Fancher <thomasf@nwi.net javascript:;> wrote:
I use Windows XP on my computers. I have discovered that the procedure
for
using CHIRP starts with going to the control panel and determining which port is being used by the cable to connect to the radio. If you move the cable between the USB ports on the computer, there needs to be a corresponding check to determine the "new" correct port number.
I hope this will be of help. Thomas WD6AZA
This depends on the USB-to-Serial chip in the programming cable. The Prolific chip behaves as you describe. Some of the other chips will retain the same com port number when the programming cable is moved to a different com port.
I use mostly programming cables that have the Prolific type chip in them. I also have 2 USB ports on the front of my computer. Once I plugged my programming cable into the left USB port, I determined its port number as you described. Then I plugged my programming cable into the right USB port. I then went into Device Manager and change the com port that was assigned to the right USB port to be the same as the com port assigned to the left USB port (Windows complains but will still allow it). Now I can use either USB port at will without having to make and changes to the selected com port in CHIRP. The down side is that I cannot use 2 programming cables with Prolific type chips in these 2 USB ports at the same time.
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