Flex Control conflicts with Silicon Labs

Jeff W7NEE

I am running a Yaesu FTDX 10 as a backup to my Flex 6600. I have installed the Silicon Labs USB to UART Bridge drivers... they work great with controlling the FTDX 10. I have recently decided to hookup my Flex Control and to my surprise my rig control was no more for the Yaesu FTDX 10. After lots of investigating... I discovered that as soon as I plug the Flex Control in... my computer will make noises as if a new device is connecting... which it is. But then my Silicon Labs UART Bridge drivers disappear from the Device manager. If I unplug the Flex Control the Silicon Labs UART Bridge re-appears in the device manager and then my Yaesu works great with my logging program. Any Suggestions on the fix?? I would like to be able to use the Flex Control with out having to unplug it every time I choose to run the FTDX 10.

Larry _ NY8T

Change the com port number of the flex control to a higher com port that is not being used by anything else.

Ha Gei

I hope it works, as i have found that the Yaesu specific ( FTDX10 ) silabs driver is incompatible with others. I am not sure what it was, but it happened to me and i had to reinstazll Yaesu Drivers ( FTDX 101d ) which then create other havoc. I don´t recall what specifically went wrong, but there is some problem documented in the web.

Harry

Mike-VA3MW

Yaesu and Icom use the same Silicon Labs driver (they are not especially signed for Icom and Yaesu).

In one case, with my Icom IC-9700 I actually had to do a full reinstall of Windows to get them to work together. This was after a few weeks of some very intensive debugging. It was at that point I gave up and started over. It is well documented on the IC-9700 email reflector. I eventually sold the 9700. :)