I do not see anything on my machines that is accessing a serial port. I have
gone through a list on device manager and it started exploring each of the
services one by one. Several minutes ago I installed a program called "Serial
Port Monitor".
The error message that I got from serial port moni
1) do a power-off reboot.
2) check for any programs/services that might try to grab a serial port.
Frequent ofenders are Palm active sync, or a old UPS managment program.
I'm taking the error message at face value. Either COM1 isn't there or some
other program has claimed it. Maybe another insta
I can not open CAT port (COM1) using any of my communications programs with my
FT-1000D. 12 hours ago everything was working fine. I am not aware of any
changes made with my computer or radio. I unplugged and reconnected every
cable going to the FT-1000D, my SignaLink SL-1+ soundcard interface
