hi. ive been pulling my hair out for 5 days now and feel my quest is in vain. ive just purchased the radio so its new to me. im not keen to keep pushing the buttons to program it .. and feel if it crashes i may loose my memories. i also purchased another brand scanner recently and the software and it went smoothly ... but have to say .. not so with the ar8600.
ive got a usb to rs232 which i tried 1st with no joy. then today just recieved another lead with some drivers and came to the conclusion ... if it takes more than 2 goes or 15 mins to sort it ... it AINT gonna work !!
well another 4 hours today searching all info i can find and ... nothing.
can anyone help? if not it will have to be a case of "stepping back" in time and programming the radio from the front panel. bit rubish if u ask me.
the lead was sold as a FTDI usb to 232 with lots of drivers. ive tried some of the methods to install as on the AOR site. i couldnt trick the laptop to install a printer either ... so that failed. by just plugging in the lead i DONT get "new hardware found" message. ive tried enabling a USB port and assigning it to COM2 with no joy. also tried to update the driver for that port .. no driver can be found on the disk.??? ive also downloaded the drivers from the FTDI site and they all look the same ... not found either.
HELP.. russ
ps. the 1st thing i did was to contact AOR via email. i got a quick reply but only to advise buying a lead and downloading the free software. ive seen it does work for some people.
ive got a usb to rs232 which i tried 1st with no joy. then today just recieved another lead with some drivers and came to the conclusion ... if it takes more than 2 goes or 15 mins to sort it ... it AINT gonna work !!
well another 4 hours today searching all info i can find and ... nothing.
can anyone help? if not it will have to be a case of "stepping back" in time and programming the radio from the front panel. bit rubish if u ask me.
the lead was sold as a FTDI usb to 232 with lots of drivers. ive tried some of the methods to install as on the AOR site. i couldnt trick the laptop to install a printer either ... so that failed. by just plugging in the lead i DONT get "new hardware found" message. ive tried enabling a USB port and assigning it to COM2 with no joy. also tried to update the driver for that port .. no driver can be found on the disk.??? ive also downloaded the drivers from the FTDI site and they all look the same ... not found either.
HELP.. russ
ps. the 1st thing i did was to contact AOR via email. i got a quick reply but only to advise buying a lead and downloading the free software. ive seen it does work for some people.