[Elecraft] K3 - COM port iterating ...

[Nick-WA5BDU]

I use the USB to serial converter from Elecraft to connect my laptop to 
my K3.  When I initially plugged it in it configured itself as COM 4.  
Hmmm?  My laptop doesn't have any real serial ports. 

Later, I moved it to a different connector and lost communications.  The 
COM port had re-configured itself as COM 5.  So I changed the settings 
on my software to suit and things were good.  I wondered if this 
behavior was somehow related to the specific USB port.  So I moved the 
connector back to the initial USB port.  This time the COM port iterated 
up to COM 6. 

I wonder if there's a way to tell this thing to be the same COM port 
each time I plug it in?  My computer is a fairly new Dell laptop running 
Vista.  As recommended, I let Vista go out and find the best driver for 
it on the web.

73--Nick, WA5BDU
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