[Scan-DC] Radio Shack Programming Cable

[Doug Kitchener]

Thanks for the info, Steve... d'you have any idea if the driver / software is compatible with Windows 7 and / or Windows Vista?  Thx!

Regards,

Doug

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> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:39:21 -0400
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> From: steve at n4tx.com
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Radio Shack Programming Cable
>
> 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
>
>
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