WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

so since its a usb to serial what do I do? I just paid 30 bucks for the thing please dont tell me its worthless... and if so where do i get one of these serial to serial wires? hope its not more than this one...

i downloaded the software and insatlled it all but the program wont connect to my scanner! the computer itself says the drivrs installed and connected correctly... guessed on my baud/mbps rate, but its set pretty low. software that I downloaded from unidens site...