Hi Gary,

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:31 AM Gary Kantor gary.kantor@optimum.net wrote:

Hi All,

        Is there any way to have Chirp recognize a programming cable on port 8 or higher?

Ports 3-7 are being used by the cellular modem in my laptop and are unavailable to Chirp.

Thanks,

Gary WA2BAU

Are you talking about CHIRP running under Windows? Unless you are running a very old version of CHIRP (something like from 2014 and before), CHIRP fully supports all 256 possible Windows serial ports from COM1 to COM256. And if I recall, even the very early versions of CHIRP running under Windows supported COM1 to COM16. If you properly configure a higher COM port number in Windows, restart CHIRP and it should be detected.

Jim