Hi Jerry:
I use a small, blue, USB to 2 serial port adapter for my laptop during
FD for satellite operation and it works flawlessly. I have not tried it
for RTTY, however.
73, Jamie
WB4YDL
Jerry Pixton wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> My old Comtrol RocketPort USB to 4 RS232 serial ports seems to be dying. I
> keep losing the com ports. This happened several times during the last
> contests. I am thinking that I had better buy a new adapter to have ready.
>
> Looking back in the Writelog email this year I see several had Edgeport
> adapters. These seem a little pricey and I can not confirm that they will
> do 5 bit serial or even which chip set they use.
>
> I do see that the SerialGear or USBGear adapters using the FTDI chipset
> supports 5 to 8 data bits with all stop bits and parity.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with the USBGear? I just clicked on
> another page on their web site and I see that they have both the Prolific
> chipset and the FTDI chipset.
>
> Jerry, W6IHG
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> Dr. Jerry R. Pixton, PIXOS Designs
> http://www.pixos.com/designs/RadioTuner/
> jpixton@shentel.net
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