John, I got it! I plugged my usb to serial adaptor in and the computer 
didn't recognize it. it came to me that I could try updating the driver. I 
did that and, what do you know, the cloning software is working on com3. 
many thanks to all who helped. great minds and all that.

73, Bob K8MXC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: re cloning software


>I use the ICT90 software with a USB to serial adapter and it works just
> fine, my com ports are all full on the computer so I have to use the USB 
> to
> serial adapter for everything else now, in face I have a couple of them 
> now
> in line too because my serial card broke so I pulled that and just put a
> couple usb to serial adapters back there which seems to work just fine so
> far.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Sikkila" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:40 PM
> Subject: re cloning software
>
>
>> Don, thanks. I finally remembered that I bought this usb converter cable
>> for
>> the dec talk when I was led to believe the voice would be improved by the
>> options that were available if I used the usb cable. didn't turn out to 
>> be
>> true. when I ran into the problem with the serial cable, I decided, what
>> the
>> heck, try the usb cable. maybe the ict90 software wasn't intended to be
>> used
>> with an usb cable because the hard drive really went into an extended
>> action
>> that went on and on. I don't think now that was what caused this problem
>> because, as I mentioned, it was already acting up. I have 4 com ports and
>> I
>> have checked and tried each of them with the same result. I'm going to
>> check
>> that serial cable for continuity right now. thanks again.
>>
>> Bob K8MXC


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