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When will you do a freescan for the BC 245XLT?
This is a great little radio and I have a 396 and your program is easy to use.
Hope you consider this.
How can you change the comports on your computer?
I have a program that only lets you use Com 1 or 2 and they are on the back of the computer, and I have three other com ports on the front.
Is there anyway I can re assign these to com 1 or 2 so I don't have to pull my computer out each time I want to use this program.
Thanks for your help.
 Dave

Hey Dave I'm glad you enjoyed the using the program on your 396. The 245 uses a really different programming language then the other uniden scanners and being that I don't have on here to play its not really possible for me to figure out how to program for it "blindly". But if you go to the radio ref wiki page at http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/BC245XLT there has already been quite a bit of software created, if you havent seen that already.

As for the COM ports, yes you can usually re assign them. I am assuming you mean you have a usb adaptor that changes COM port depending on what usb port its in, since its pretty unusual to see 3 com ports on the front of a PC. In that case what you need to do is after you plug it in, goto device manager, select the COM port and then settings and dig in and somewhere there it should let you pick out which COM port you want to assign it to. I hope that helps.

I have three (3) usb 2.0 ports on the front of the computer and I believe three (3) on the back.
Would I have to re-assign them as you explained in your prior post?

Thanks,
 Dave

Yeah on mine for example, if i plug in the adaptor, go to device manager, then ports, then select the COM port, select properties, settings tab, click on advanced, it lets me pick which com port i want to appear on through a drop down box.