<div dir="ltr"><div>The USB cable will emulate a com port when the driver is properly installed. You can see what com port is assigned to a given device under Device Management in Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>-KE8EXY<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Jim Unroe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Most of these radios require serial (a COM port in Windows) communications for programming. Most modern computers do not have a legacy serial port so a USB programming cable containing a chip used with a device driver to create a virtual COM port.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 11:54 AM Jack Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly.jack@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly.jack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does anyone have experience programing this radio using the USB cable <br>
supplied with it? My biggest problem is that the software is looking for <br>
a com port connection. Is there any work around for this? Thanks.<br>
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