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

[Burns Fisher]

Glad you got it going, Rick.  I was told some time ago that Windows 10
stopped shipping a driver for the Prolific chipset, although a replacement
driver is available somewhere.   I don't know why all this happened, but
FTDI chipsets seem to be fine.  That may be what you have.

Good luck and 73,

Burns WB1FJ

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:08 AM Rick Walter via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> I appreciate the replies to my problem. It’s solved. The computer kept
> telling me the USB to serial device was running fine with up to date
> drivers on Com 3. I finally changed that out with one of the other 2 USB to
> serial adapters I own, fired every thing up and all is well again! I assume
> the other adapter was just too old for Windows 10.
>
> The interesting thing was the SatPC32 program was updating the sat
> frequencies on the screen but not talking to the radio with the old
> adapter.
>
> Life is good when you solve an aggravating problem!
>
> Thanks to all and 73,
> Rick WB3CSY
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> > On Jan 30, 2020, at 8:03 PM, Bill Booth via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
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> > On 2020-01-30 7:17 p.m., Rick Walter via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> >> It is ironic that it worked yesterday on Win 7!
> >
> > I had lots of problems like this when I upgraded to 10 with the
> usb/serial port cable.  In the end I got a new one that used a  FTDI Chip
> and after I installed the driver it worked like it should.  Windows 10 did
> not like what I was using I guess.
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