[RTTY] Cheap USB to Serial port

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

Hi Dave,

I was thinking that there'd been some inconsistency in the success of
using the F5U103.  I've had good luck with PCMCIA serial port cards,
if you have PCMCIA slots available.

I think I used one on Baker, in fact.

I'm envious of your going to Clipperton.  I'd like to go back.  Nauru
and Rotuma both seem to be impossible, for various annoying
reasons. And it's not worth going to 5W with AO-40 broken.  so it
looks as if it'll be only T30 and T33, with maybe a little bit of 3D2
again.

73, doug

   From: "Dave Anderson, K4SV" <K4SV2 at charter.net>
   Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:16:45 -0500

   Hi Guys,

   Just bought a F5U103 off Ebay for $17.95, tried it on Windows XP Professional using updated driver from Belkin, no luck.

   Found however a extention from MMTTY to use anternate ports such as Printer, Serial ports RTS/CTS all bit banged.  Will try this in the next few days and report.

   Dave, K4SV
   Asheville, NC



   ----- Original Message ----- 
   From: WA9ALS - John 
   To: Bob Patten ; Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 
   Cc: aa6yq at ambersoft.com ; rtty at contesting.com ; cq-contest at contesting.com ; writelog at contesting.com ; k4sb at earthlink.net 
   Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:55 PM
   Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: [RTTY] Data conversion Need anextrta port?


   > 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.

   MUCH LESS than that on Ebay!

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