VERTEX STANDARD VX-426 Programming

[GME Man]

Hi, I have a problem with programming my Vertex Standard VX-426 radio, but i think the main reason is because of the drivers. I was just wondering what drivers you need to program it.

[Phantom]

I believe that all the required drivers are supplied with the CD.

[Vkfour]

You need to make sure that you are using a serial to USB programming lead that will work with your OS. Many of the cheap leads just wont work on anything after XP, and even then, some of them can be hit and miss.

[GME Man]

Yeah I have purchased the USB cable and there is a driver disk that comes with it. I have installed the drivers and selected the right com port, but now it's saying there is something wrong with the com port.


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[Vkfour]

There is probably nothing wrong with your COM port, it is more than likely the early model, fake prolific chip, I used to get the same result. Google will show you pages of problems with these leads. I got around it by using a serial to radio lead and got a USB to serial adapter and have not had a problem with any radio or even an old TNC modem since. Make sure you get your adapter locally because there are adapters and there are adapters and you'll want to be able to take it back if it doesn't work.

[Phantom]

Where did you purchase the cable and software from? This might help to explain the root cause to your problem

[GME Man]

I got the cable on eBay with the driver disk, and I got the software from Austech


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[Vkfour]

Enough said, most of the e-bay cables are using out of date, knock off chips. They will probably work on an XP system and I have managed to get them to work on Linux, but not on 8, 8.1 or Win 10. Compatibility mode doesn't work either.

[GME Man]

I've only got windows 7


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[Vkfour]

Read a previous post ...

There is probably nothing wrong with your COM port, it is more than likely the early model, fake prolific chip, I used to get the same result. Google will show you pages of problems with these leads. I got around it by using a serial to radio lead and got a USB to serial adapter and have not had a problem with any radio or even an old TNC modem since. Make sure you get your adapter locally because there are adapters and there are adapters and you'll want to be able to take it back if it doesn't work.

[Comint]

I've only got windows 7

The problem is with counterfeit Prolific chipsets used in such cables.
Prolific have rewritten their Drivers so they don't work with the counterfeit chips.

Windows regularly updates your OS (even Win7) with up-to-date drivers, so the cables may work for a while with old drivers, then fail once the updated drivers are installed.

If your programming cable cost less than about US$15 -18, then there is about a 99.99% probability that it has the counterfeit Prolific chipset.

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Comint

[GME Man]

It's all good now I couldn't get it to work on a normal computer but I tried it on my Tough Book army computer and it worked straight away. Thanks for the replies guys.


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