Unable to program BCD996T

[motorcoachdoug]

Hi everyone
I have a Uniden BCD996T scanner. I got a serial to USB cable from Gig Ware. I pluged in the cable in the rear port and set the baud at 57800. Pluged in the USB and I am using the ARC996 program to porgram my scanner. It is unable to find it. I made sure the com port is the same and the Baud rate as well. Also i did install the driver that came with the cable also. I looked under hardware devices and found it under Com ports also. I do not have any serial port on my computer. Only USB,Firewire and of course my plug in for my internet to my router. I also have the radio shack softwrae installed for my Radio Shack Pro96 and that is working fine.

Any ideas??/.. I am using windows XP for my OS
Doug

 

[ka3jjz]

A couple of things here - you should really try to connect at 115k, as that's the fastest speed the 996 will handle (even this old XP machine I'm on now handles this without blinking). Next, the one thing you didn't mention is going into the scanner and setting up the ports. This is summarized in this wiki article (all links are blue)

Freescan - Connecting Scanner to PC - The RadioReference Wiki

Mike

 

[motorcoachdoug]

can not program my bcd006t

HI
I did go into the ports on the scanner and set them at 57600 both front and back. still no luck
any other ideas??
Thaks for your help
Doug

 

[Redneck0410]

Can you verify the cable's drivers are installed? I had to find 3rd party drivers for my USB-serial cable that I have hooked up to my BCT15X. As ka3jjz suggested, set the serial ports via the scanner settings to 115200 bps both front and rear. Then you have to go into freescan and search for your scanner (If it's hooked up to USB, it should be port 3) and it'll say it found the scanner.

 

[ka3jjz]

I would hazard a guess that there's something that's blocking the connection. You should see a COM port allocated in Device Manager if your drivers successfully loaded- it can't have the same address as anything else that's trying to use that same port.

Mike

[edit] the OT is using ARC996 - the only reason I pointed to FreeScan is that, unlike most of the other programs, the user guide actually tells you how to use the menus to set up the ports...