[RTTY] Serial card recommendations?

[Jim Rhodes]

I am using I/O Edgeport USB boxes,. A 4 port for portable (still win7) and
an 8 port when using my newer laptop. Works great, found drivers and loaded
right up (of course it had to do that for each port, so did take a few
minutes).
On Jul 6, 2014 1:03 AM, "Rick Johnson" <110268293250g at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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