[RTTY] Serial card recommendations?

[Rick Johnson]

Thanks to all for the recommendations. Looks like my cards are getting 
old, after all...

73,

Erik - K5WW



On 7/6/2014 8:25 PM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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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