[TenTec] usb to serial

[HUGHESRO]

I don't hve a 1000mp but do have a 1000mp mark 5 fd and the radio shack serial to usb works great. I paid $39.00. But the rs usb to serial sure don't like my Ten Tec omni 6. Gud lk Roger W4IV
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: CATFISHTWO at aol.com
Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Date:  Mon, 15 May 2006 01:09:52 EDT

> 
>In a message dated 5/14/2006 9:21:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
>w3sz at comcast.net writes:
>
>The  FT1000MP is known to have a finicky CAT port, but some other brands of   
>USB to Serial port adapters have been shown to work with it.
>
>I sent  one of the KeySpan adapters to the deveoloper of some TCL-based   
>software and it turns out that TCL doesn't even recognize the  KeySpan  
>adapter ports, period.  Other USB to Serial Port  adapters work fine with  
>the TCL-based  software.
>
>
>
>I have a friend with a ft1000mp and he had a devil of a time with his  serial 
>cable for psk 31, apparently a standard 9 pin has an extra wire in it  that 
>grounds something that shouldn't be grounded, so he ended up building a 3  wire 
>cable which worked well. 
> 
>tom N6AJR
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