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I got it working

the serial cable i had marked as straight thru was actually a null modem, so signals were being mixed in a bad way, causing the radio to appear dead.



now i just need to start sniffing out all the interesting channels around here

Regards

Alex

Yes, i can do a loopback test on the serial port inside the VM and characters are echoed back

did factory reset, nothing

it runs under DOS in a VM

probe V7 software

I think the 456 board/MCU is dead.

Roland985, Thankyou for your reply! I will try a factory reset (it has a button on the back) but this appears to only affect the "hardware" side of the device iirc, I have read the manual, tried the steps involvedd and it still does not connect the way I interpret it so. I have one of the ...

Hi All The radio it self seems to function fine when I scan manually, I can listen to most local radio etc, manually enter frequencies, etc. I seem to have a dead Optoscan 456, i have tried to communicate with it via serial and the "probe v7" software, and have failed. the specs that i can...