jimc
Member
Greeting All,
I purchased a used BC796D and have been trying to get it to talk to ARC250 and the Uniden Software over the RS-232 interface. None of the manuals I found go into any detail involving the RS-232 setup. I verified that the port speeds matched the scanner, Windows Device Driver Port setting etc. I am using Windows 10 with a USB Serial Interface. I tested the USB adapter using an old Kantronics Ham Radio TNC and there are no issues using PuTTY and the USB cable to the TNC to communicate back and forth so it's not a hardware or Windows issue. I have also tried running both programs as administrator which made no difference. Attached is a screen shot of the error message.
I'm thinking that the RS-232 chip might have been damaged by the previous owner but before I order the chip and replace I thought I would reach out to this group to see if there is a trick to using the BC796D RS-232.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Jim N4WFP
I purchased a used BC796D and have been trying to get it to talk to ARC250 and the Uniden Software over the RS-232 interface. None of the manuals I found go into any detail involving the RS-232 setup. I verified that the port speeds matched the scanner, Windows Device Driver Port setting etc. I am using Windows 10 with a USB Serial Interface. I tested the USB adapter using an old Kantronics Ham Radio TNC and there are no issues using PuTTY and the USB cable to the TNC to communicate back and forth so it's not a hardware or Windows issue. I have also tried running both programs as administrator which made no difference. Attached is a screen shot of the error message.
I'm thinking that the RS-232 chip might have been damaged by the previous owner but before I order the chip and replace I thought I would reach out to this group to see if there is a trick to using the BC796D RS-232.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Jim N4WFP