I have a Belkin hub, but need more serial ports. This one looks interesting
to me. Anyone tried it? It's a Belkin 98270-8, a separate box with a USB
to 4 DB-9 connectors for $130 from buy.com.
Here's a link:
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10238214&loc=14617
Jim N7US
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Thorne" <rthorne@tcac.net>
To: "Write Log (maillist)" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] White Heat USB to Serial
I was at K5NA's place for IARU this past weekend. He had a WhiteHeat
USB to 4 db9 serial adapter. Looks like a nice box. Anyone using it
with Writelog? He had one on his packet cluster with 4 kantronics TNCs
attached working very well.
While searching the web page I also found a Blue Heat PCI card. They
have different kinds from 2 ports to 8 ports. The 8 port has the option
of having a box with the db9's installed which may be convenient. The
web site also says it supports 5,6,7 or 8 data bits, so that may be a
plus for fsk.
The web sites are:
The following is the retailer in NC that sells them:
http://www.emj.com/products/comnet/cti.html
Connect Techs web site:
http://www.connecttech.com
I like the USB route if it will work. That would give 6 com ports,
which should handle most requirements. However there is no info (that I
could find) that says wether the WhiteHeat USB to Serial converter will
handle 5 bits of data. I'll shoot them a note and find out.
Anyways, is anyone using either of the above that would care to comment?
Thanks.
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Richard Thorne
N5ZC
Amarillo, TX
http://www.tcac.net/~rthorne/html.index
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