[amsat-bb] CONTINUATION OF HELP WITH USB TO SERIAL CONTROL OF KENWOOD

[Burns Fisher]

There is a particular USB/serial chipset whose driver was removed from
Win10 as I recall.   But I would think that if that were the problem you
could not see COM3 at all.

Try running SatPC32 as administrator.  It might be that COM3 is protected
against unprivileged access.  I'm no Windows guru, so I could not tell you
how to fix this, but give it a try to find out if that is the problem at
least.

73,

Burns WB1FJ

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 7:17 PM Rick Walter <wb3csy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. The computer says the USB to serial is on Com 3 and
> the SatPC32 program says it can’t find Com3. Maybe the chip in it is
> working but there could be a problem in the circuit going to the radio. I
> have been using that setup since 2010. Maybe another part let the smoke
> out. I do see on the internet that Win 10 does not like USB to serial. I
> take the box apart tomorrow (USB to Serial) and look. It is ironic that it
> worked yesterday on Win 7!
> Rick
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> On Jan 30, 2020, at 6:10 PM, Burns Fisher <wb1fj-bb at fisher.cc> wrote:
>
> 
> Are you saying that it is more than the COM number just changing, as
> Windows is wont to do capriciously?  I guess I'd just plug and unplug the
> USB/serial and see which COM port appears and disappears.
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 5:38 PM Rick Walter via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
>> I have been using the RASCAL R-KW13PD made by BUX COMM CO for years to
>> control my Kenwood TS-2000X via satPC32 software to work the birds.I
>> have been using an HP Windows 7 laptop.
>> Today, I just finally updated that laptop to Windows 10. Everything
>> seems to works great since the upgrade. However, when I try using my
>> normal interface which was always connected to COM 3, The satPC32
>> software tells me it can't find the radio on COM3. When I check the
>> device manager is claims the device is working. Any ideas? Thank you.
>> 73,
>> Rick - WB3CSY
>>
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