[TowerTalk] Additonal Comm Port

[Jerry Muller]

Another option you can use is to add a USB-COM adapter. They cost less than 
10 bucks and work just fine. I'm using the one COM port on my computer to 
talk to an Orion and a USB port drives the RigBlaster and does the CW 
keying. The USB COM port comes up as COM5, but you can modify the 
WriteLog.ini file to redirect the fourth COM port to COM5 and it works just 
fine.

73, Jerry K0TV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noel" <yaesurig at msn.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Additonal Comm Port


> Hello TT'ers,
>
> I know this isn't exactly tower related but I'm guessing some of you
> here may have already gone through this and my have some helpful advice
> to my question.
>
> I'm trying to connect a second rig to my computer but my computer only
> has one comm port on the main board.  So I need to add another comm
> port.  So I went out and bought a 2 port PCI card. And figured it would
> be simple.  Well I installed the card and the driver no problem.  The
> new ports are comm 4 and comm 5.  I connect the serial cable to the new
> rig and as soon as I turn the rig on my computer locks up.
>
> My old rig works fine on comm1 and I can connect the new rig to comm1
> and it also will work fine.  But I don't want to keep swapping cables to
> use each radio, thus the second comm port.
>
> So I'm guessing that either the software driver is not compatible with
> WinXP or I have a resource conflict somewhere.  However, Device Manager
> does not show any conflicts. I'm also guessing that that is true until I
> turn on the second rig.  But then it's too late to troubleshoot because
> I'm locked up.  Only fix is cold restart. So, before I pull the card and
> return it I thought I'd querry the knowledge base here.
>
> I thought the expansion card and driver software would be smart enough
> to install itself and not cause a conflict.  Duh!  One note is that the
> driver is not digitally signed so that could be the problem there I
> don't know.
>
> Anyway if anyone has experience with this I'd appreciate any helpful
> advice.   Please respond off-list thanks.
>
> Noel,
> West Haven, UT
> de KD6JHV
>
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