[Dxbase] Kenwood TS-870S

[Bob Main]

I have connected my Kenwood up to one of COM ports.  It is Radio-2.  I know that the COM port is either 3 or 8.  I picked 8 and of course the program fussed until I told it to turn off it being active.  Then I changed it to 3 and rechecked to activate it.  Now when I tell the program to switch to Radio 2 and I click on a spot to send that freq to the Kenwood it does nothing.  I connected pins 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 per the manual, but they are straight wired.  (Meaning pin 2 to pin 2, pin 3 to pin 3 and etc.)  I know that pin 2 is Transmit date and pin 3 is Receive data.  What I am wondering is should 2 and 3 cross over between the radio and computer?  (Meaning to I connect the wire coming from pin 2 at one end to pin 3 at the other?)

BTW I did check and there are no shorts in the plugs.  I checked this before I put them together.

73s
Bob