[RTTY] Serial card recommendations?

[Martin Berube]

Hi Erick,

I have purchased a Windows 8.1 PC recently and loaded it with a StarTech 
serial board.  I had to install the Win7drivers since the one for win 8 
wasen't available. That work fine for me.  Might be worth a try.

73 de VE2NMB Martin

Le 2014-07-06 02:02, Rick Johnson a écrit :
> 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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