Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Hi all,

I seem to have issues connecting my UBCT9 to my Windows 7 machine via the serial port.
Any program I use to connect to it, TrunkView, Uniden's Scanner Software or bcTools, cannot connect to the scanner.
Although it was working in XP years ago.

Any idea how I can diagnose this and get Trunkview working?

The scanner is setup in Remote Mode and speed settings match the speed settings on my PC.

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Re: Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Settings used for COM1 are:
Speed 57600 (Tried other speeds also)
Data Bits: 8
Parity: None
Stop Bits: 1
Flow Control: None

Are these correct?
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Re: Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Double check that the device manager COM port settings are the same as well.
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Re: Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Real comm port or USB comm port? Windows likes to reassign port numbers for USB comm ports when you use a different USB port.
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Re: Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Com settings sames in the app as in device manager.
On board serial port on the motherboard. Might try a usb to serial next.
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Re: Uniden UBCT9 and Windows 7 Serial Port

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Please disregard...
I just discovered, the serial cable I was using, marked 940-0024C is a UPS signalling cable, so not likely to be a straight through....
FOund a short and older serial cable and it talks to the scanner fine now.. :)
Need to go get a longer cable tomorrow...


Thanks for your assistance :) now to work out how to use Trunkview :)
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