If it's a desktop PC, and has a spare PCI slot, why not use a 4-port PCI serial port board ? They are readily available and reasonably priced. Purchased mine off of eBay. $20 - works perfectly. 73, S
I have no ports no nothing HP notebook. I just got a 2 COM ports PCMCIA card, but I did not try it yet, maybe this weekend. In meantime I use USB-COM converters with ATEN UC232A chip in it - works ju
No, it's a laptop. Have already done the PCI serial port thing in a fedw desktops. Works great. 73, Barry _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting
Have a look at AA5AU's RTTY website. Don lists at least one USB/serial cable which he uses with Writelog. http://www.aa5au.com/gettingstarted/rtty_start8.htm Scroll about half way down the page to th
Hi Barry, Which device are you using? There are quite a few PCMCIA-to-RS232 converters around but they don't look to be too cheap. If your laptop computer has PCMCIA slots, you might consider that. I
Barry, I built MAX232 CIV interface for my PRO3 and used it with a great success with USB to Serial converter, but could not resist when I saw price of this cable which works great: http://cgi.ebay.c
I'll second that Boris... The K1EL keyers are excellent and easy to build if you go that way. Make sure you follow the driver load instructions EXACTLY... I found the Tripp-Lite U209-000-R USB to Ser
I solved this problem using a "Docking Station" for my laptop. It provides two PCI slots and allows me to pull the laptop out quickly without having to monkey around with all the cables. I'm using a
Hello, What about this big diference in prices? http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Tr ipp-Lite+U209-000-R+USB+&category0= Is a matter the USB versio 1.1 instead of
The NETmate KW-825 USB to RS232 Cable has worked well for both CW and Rig control, with a DB9-splitter feeding both the Keying Circuit and the CT-17. Tanner's here in Dallas had them for $9.95, and i
We use one of the USB to serial adapters that you can find at your local Office Depot to do radio control for K4BAI's FT1000MP to a Dell laptop. They cost something like $20. Jeff KU8E ______________
There are two different chip sets used by manufacturers of USB to serial port converters. So it is not people's imagination that some converters will not work in with certain software applications. A
USB speed does not matter, you would not do any faster then 19.200 through it anyway and that is far below the speed limit f USB interface. I think all of them gonna work good for casual radio contro
I've been happy with http://www.pfranc.com/usb/usb.shtml for all applications I"ve tried. 73 de chris K6DBG _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesti