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Installing the PL-2303 USB-to-Serial driver under Windows 7

A quick note on installing the Prolific PL-2303 USB-to-Serial driver under Windows 7.

My Puxing PX-777 Plus radios can be programmed using a USB Programming Cable. The “6-in-1″ programming software is only available for Windows. On my Mac, I run a virtual Windows 7 installation under VMware Fusion.

PL-2303 USB-to-Serial driver

I tried the supplied drivers from 409shop for Puxing; I also tried latest drivers from the Prolific website (PL2303_Prolific_DriverInstaller_v130.zip). These appear to install correctly, but upon inserting the USB cable Windows 7 returns an error “The Device Cannot Start (Code 10)” and claims the driver was not installed. Re-installation did not help.

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August 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Personal | Comments are closed

Show channel names on Puxing PX-777 Plus

By default, the Puxing PX-777 radio starts in “Frequency Mode”. Sometimes it’s nice to see a name instead of the frequency. You can enable channel names if the radio is running in “Channel Mode”.

I programmed these channel names on a PC using the 6-in-1 software with a USB programming cable.

To toggle between “Frequency Mode” and “Channel Mode”, press and hold the “enter” key while switching on the radio. The radio now displays channel numbers like “CH-001″. This setting will be remembered until you change it.
Go to Menu 15 (Name), press “enter”, use the encoder to select “On” and press “enter” [...]

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