[RTTY] SerialGear USB to Serial adapter?

[Peter Laws]

On 10/29/07, Robert Chudek - K0RC <k0rc at citlink.net> wrote:

> The only caveat with EXTFSK is the driver program requires exclusive control of the port you decide to use. For example, if you are using COM3 for FSK/PTT, another program (not even ham radio related - GPS for example) may look for an external device and scan all available ports. This 3rd party software might not "release" COM3 properly after its interrogation. The next time you launch MMTTY the EXTFSK driver will fail to

Later versions of Garmin's MapSource will do this.  Insists on
scanning all serial ports and won't let you override it.  Older
versions let you set the port.  Garmin is probably just responding to
the ever-falling lowest common denominator, but what a pain.

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