[RTTY] Serial card recommendations?

[Don Hill AA5AU]

I'm using the SYBA model SD-PEX15011 4-port serial card in my new Dell desktop with Windows 8.1. Works fine. Installation was not
hard but a little strange for me when I tried to use the supplied disk.

I bought mine from Newegg but they are presently out of stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124075

A friend of mine also bought one for his HP desktop with Windows 8.1 and it works fine in his PC as well. He allowed Windows to
install the drivers for him and it installed fine with no issues.

73, Don AA5AU

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick Johnson
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 1:03 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Serial card recommendations?

Hi all.

Last week I upgraded my old shack XP box to 8.1. The migration went pretty smooth.

But... the only thing not working is RTTY keying. One card is a Sunix brand (model 4036), the other is a StarTech (model unknown;
but Windows found the proper drivers, or so it said).

Both cards have Windows 8.1 64 bit drivers; which - according to Microsoft - should work fine. But they don't.

The StarTech makes my PC crash when I try to do RTTY with it; the Sunix card puts my rig in transmit; but doesn't do the FSK keying.
In fact, I can select either COM port in the software, and - regardless of whether the cable is hooked up to COM4 or COM5 - the
radio goes into transmit! 
Weird, to say the least.

So, my question: what are you using on Windows 8.1 that properly works in RTTY? Clearly my (oldish) cards and their drivers are no
good....

Thanks, 73,

Erik - K5WW

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