WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

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.

Cheers,

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?

Double check that the device manager COM port settings are the same as well.

Real comm port or USB comm port? Windows likes to reassign port numbers for USB comm ports when you use a different USB port.

Com settings sames in the app as in device manager.
On board serial port on the motherboard. Might try a usb to serial next.

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