Mike,
Thanks for the suggestions and yes the settings you mentioned are set right and sometimes it does tx when I click on ping or send text, that is it used to, in the last few hours I can't get it to do anything.?
The last thing that worked, this morningb, ?was when I set com port to com1 using device manager.
I used chirp and it works fine downloading the programming data but that is using the 3 mm ?phone jack but it is using the same USB to DB9 ?serial adapter cable going to the computer and using com1.
Thanks much to all for the suggestions and interest.
73 de rolan w3fdk?