Will the USB SERIAL CABLE V 1.1 supplied by Elecraft work with Windows 10?

[Jack Colson]

This is a 2007 CD. It works with Win 7.
73,
Jack, W3TMZ
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[Guy Olinger K2AV]

If it doesn't work, disconnect the adapter from the PC. Reboot the PC.
Reattach the adapter. If it still doesn't work, disconnect the adapter
again and go to the device manager:

On the PC desktop, click on the window symbol lower left corner, then click
settings. In the "find a setting" entry field, upper right in settings
window, type "device manager" without the quotes. (Clicking on the
"Devices" choice takes you to a different place.)  In search results
window, click "Device Manager".

In Device manager, click on "Ports", double click on your USB to serial
listing among all the ports.

Click on the "driver" tab.

The current prolific driver, supplied by Windows over the internet and
blessed by Windows 10, is 3.6.81.357, dated 9/4/2015. This driver works
well, and is always running my AIM4170 analyzer when it is in the shack.

If you have a "strange" or older version, then click on the update driver
button, and click on the "search automatically" choice.

If it tells you are current, then in device manager click on the uninstall
button to remove it. when that is done, plug in the adapter cord, and when
it asks where to get the driver, chose the internet. It will do a new
install of the current "blessed" driver.

There are other gotchas, like if the actual cord that you have has a fake
or damaged chip in it, or the USB connection is suffering from busted
connection, or too many connections on a hub, or a bad hub, etc, etc.

When I converted from my Win 7 Pro to Win 10, nothing broke, and a lot of
stuff ran better, faster. Flipped my wife's PC from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 and
a small stack of mysterious troubles that I was never able to isolate just
went away. Fixed a couple of LAN definition things and all was quite fine.
All in all, it was by far the best Microsoft OS conversion I've ever had.

Hope that helps.

73, Guy K2AV



On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Jack Colson <[hidden email]>
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> This is a 2007 CD. It works with Win 7.
> 73,
> Jack, W3TMZ
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[Guy Olinger K2AV]

If it doesn't work, disconnect the adapter from the PC. Reboot the PC.
Reattach the adapter. If it still doesn't work, disconnect the adapter
again and go to the device manager:

On the PC desktop, click on the window symbol lower left corner, then click
settings. In the "find a setting" entry field, upper right in settings
window, type "device manager" without the quotes. (Clicking on the
"Devices" choice takes you to a different place.)  In search results
window, click "Device Manager".

In Device manager, click on "Ports", double click on your USB to serial
listing among all the ports.

Click on the "driver" tab.

The current prolific driver, supplied by Windows over the internet and
blessed by Windows 10, according to the driver panel, is 3.6.81.357, dated
9/4/2015. This driver works well here, and is always running my AIM4170
analyzer when it is in the shack.

If you have a "strange" or older version, then click on the update driver
button, and click on the "search automatically" choice.

If it tells you that you are current, then in device manager click on the
uninstall button to remove it. when that is done, plug in the adapter cord,
and when it asks where to get the driver, chose the internet. It will do a
new install of the current "blessed" driver.

There are other gotchas, like if the actual cord that you have has a fake
chip in it, and other irritating circumstances.

Hope that helps.

73, Guy K2AV



On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Jack Colson <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> This is a 2007 CD. It works with Win 7.
> 73,
> Jack, W3TMZ
> ______________________________________________________________
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