I don't hve a 1000mp but do have a 1000mp mark 5 fd and the radio shack serial
to usb works great. I paid $39.00. But the rs usb to serial sure don't like my
Ten Tec omni 6. Gud lk Roger W4IV
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From: CATFISHTWO@aol.com
Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 01:09:52 EDT
>
>In a message dated 5/14/2006 9:21:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>w3sz@comcast.net writes:
>
>The FT1000MP is known to have a finicky CAT port, but some other brands of
>USB to Serial port adapters have been shown to work with it.
>
>I sent one of the KeySpan adapters to the deveoloper of some TCL-based
>software and it turns out that TCL doesn't even recognize the KeySpan
>adapter ports, period. Other USB to Serial Port adapters work fine with
>the TCL-based software.
>
>
>
>I have a friend with a ft1000mp and he had a devil of a time with his serial
>cable for psk 31, apparently a standard 9 pin has an extra wire in it that
>grounds something that shouldn't be grounded, so he ended up building a 3
>wire
>cable which worked well.
>
>tom N6AJR
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