All this sounds great! I wish I knew how to do it. This is all so foreign to me. Hoping the guy who sold me the cable can assist.

Megatron-UK, I am just trying to get it to work. This stuff is old so not trying to go any "cheap route" as you say. My goal is to get it to work, that's all. And DOS freak, failing the inspection is not an option. My business depends on it. I will make it work, somehow, someway. It will come …

Interesting suggestions. Thank you none the less. I am co-owner of the company so I can pretty much do as I choose. I have now come into possession of an old Dell Latitude with windows XP installed on it and it has a serial port. I truly thought I scored! Well, while trying to boot from the provided …

In short, I am at my wits end, with time running out, as I need to program a Kenwood VHF radio (tk-730H-G) and have gone down a route which is simply not working. Local help did not work and I do not have a Kenwood dealer where I am located. So I am struggling. Wondering if someone in this community …