Hey hey hey!!!! 
You are a champ!!!
I have put the power to ext and plugged in a 9v battery.
This provided no joy as the program would not start.
I added the 10k resister from the RX to the GND and the process started. HOWEVER....there was still no data being received.
I then removed the 10k resister once the program was running and it started receiving.
Sooooo.... I have to plug in external power, add the resister, wait till the program starts then remove it?
Is there a "Smarter" way to do this???