Windows radio programming help

[NW1J]

It has been a few years since I have reprogrammed my radios so feel free to treat me as if I have never done it before.

I am trying to program a Standard Horizon HX370s. I have the CE68 software and the USB programing cable. The radio is in edit mode but the computer does talk to the radio.

The problem I am having is when I try read or write to the radio when I click on transfer in the software it instantly says complete. nothing is actually sent or recieved though.

I recall having an issue like this in the past but dont recall the solution. I presume it is something to do with the speed of the comupter vs the radio. I also only have COM1 to COM4 to choose from in the software but those are for old computers with serial ports. I know have done this with the USB cable a couple years ago so I know its possible, I just cant rember what I had to do to get it to talk.


Can someone please remind the workaround for getting old (slow) radios to talk to new (fast) computers?

 

[Voyager]

It sounds like you need to install the driver for the USB cable.

 

[NW1J]

Thanks for the quick reply. I just came back to say I fixed it.

You more or less were correct.

Here is how I fixed it. (This is Windows 10 by the way)

opened control panel
noticed the radio was listed as COM6 so changed that to COM1
slowed down all the speeds (from my limited experience it seems computers dont give radios enough time so you have to slow everything down)
clicked around some more and clicked on troubleshooting
control panel then asked me to reboot the computer

rebooted computer and went back into control panel everything looked good and it was still showing as port 1
opened CE68, select com1 and clicked transfer.

It worked!!

so longer story short- check the port and slow it down. pretty sure i went down this same road last time i programmed it.


Thanks again for the help!