To the group:
I know this may be a little off subject but I'm preparing to set up my station
again after moving home. I was planning on switching from my tower computer to
my laptop computer as the station computer. The laptop has only USB ports
while my 570D and Rigblaster have 9 pin serial ports. My first thought was to
go get two of the cheap USB to Serial Port adapters and use them together to
drive the Rigblaster and the 570D. I'm told that you cannot use more than one
of the cheap USB to serial Port adapters at a time and further more if you plug
the cheap adapter into another USB port it will assign a different COM Port
number to the same adapter. My next thought was to look for something that
allowed multiple ports and had static COM Port numbers assigned to each COM
Port connection. I managed to find at least two vendors: CompUSB and
Sealevel. With prices ranging from $100 to $160 I'm just a bit skeptical.
Can someone tell me if I'm on track with the advice that I cannot use more than
one of the cheap adapters and will the port numbers change if I put the adapter
into a different USB port. Is there another way around this problem?
Thanks in advance
Brian Spindor
KA7KUZ
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