[WriteLog] Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: [RTTY] Data conversion Need an extrta port?

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

Note the the RigExpert also provides a substitute for the sound card,
and level conversions for all the possibilities of control signals
that I know of, including lines for CW keying, PTT, FSK, and rig
control, and uses a minimum of cables.

You can certainly get a USB "sound card" that Windows recognizes as
such, and use a Belkin, with appropriate level conversion, if
necessary for control.  And it would work with MMTTY and MMSSTV, as well
as with MixW, and cost less, probably.

But I'm not sorry I have gotten the RigExpert.

73, doug

   Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 06:06:27 -0500
   From: Bob Patten <n4bp at bellsouth.net>

   Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:

   >This is the IC that the RigExpert uses to provide a complete digital
   >mode interface on a USB port.  It only works with MixW and DigiPan
   >currently, but we can hope for MMTTY support.
   >  
   >
   The Belkin F5U103 USB/Serial adaptor will provide a true serial port 
   with proper address and IRQ.  I've been using
   two of them on a notebook with USB ports only, for both rig control (K2 
   & IC-706) and FSK (with MMTTY).
   They run about $60 and can be found at Best Buy and/or CompUSA.
   Check out AA5AU's RTTY website for more info about USB/Serial adaptors.

   -- 
   73,     Bob Patten, N4BP                Plantation, FL

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