[RTTY] RS 232 interface

[Frederick Day]

Hi all,

I have been using RTTY on my computer with a duel RS 232 interface PCI card from my home address. All seems to work very well indeed.

I now wish to take part in our club's field day contests and (for obvious reasons) use my laptop, so I purchased a USB to 232 converter as my laptop does not have the appropriate port. However, whatever I seem to do I can not make it work. The computer is "seeing" the converter but nothing I do will make the computer key the radio. On fire up the radio tries to enter Tx mode, but nothing else.

I am using Trutty and MMTTY, which both work well on the desktop computer. I therefore assume that this USB to 232 is not the same as the PCI 232 card I have in the desktop.

If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful.

Regards 73 de M0RFD
Fred