[RTTY] SerialGear USB to Serial adapter?

[Jerry Pixton]

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 at shentel.net
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