<div dir="ltr">You should be using the driver at <a href="http://www.miklor.com">www.miklor.com</a> whether you run XP or Win 7 / 8. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Nate Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perkins.nc@gmail.com" target="_blank">perkins.nc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would suggest just tossing the idea of using whatever driver you got on the supplied CD. I ordered a cable and disc set off of Amazon, threw the disc out, downloaded everything off of CHIRP, plugged in my cable, and it went flawless. Not one hitch. This was a Baofeng UV-82. CHIRP rocks!<br>
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Nate, KL3NP<br>
Nome, Alaska<br>
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On May 20, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Richard Mogford wrote:<br>
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> I am new to this list and probably am making mistakes that are already well<br>
> known!<br>
><br>
> I bought a cheap cable running the 2303 chip, which I found later is not so<br>
> good.<br>
><br>
> The drivers on the supplied CD seem to work OK, but when I go to use CHIRP,<br>
> I get an "Error Occurred" message saying "could not open port COM3: [Error<br>
> 2] The system cannot find the file specified."<br>
><br>
> Is there anything I can try here, or should I just shop for a better cable?<br>
><br>
> Richard<br>
><br>
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