[Scan-DC] Radio Shack Programming Cable

[Steve Thompson]

After some delay, Radio Shack now has a new USB programming cable for 
the Pro-106 and a dozen or so other scanners on its Web site, for 
sale for about $35.  The RS part number is 20-546.

The driver for this device does not seem to be the same as the one 
for the previous version and must be installed from an included 
CD.  The procedure was simple and also installs some proprietary 
Radio Shack scanner programming software.  Since I was already using 
Win500, I loaded but did not use the new software.  There seems to be 
no way to load the new driver without loading the new software, 
however.  Just load it and ignore it.

After loading it, Windows XP's Device Manager found the new cable's 
electronics on COM 7.  I told Win500 to use COM7 and uploading and 
downloading from the scanner worked fine.

Steve, N4TX