[WriteLog] White Heat USB to Serial

[Jim McDonald]

Oops, sorry.  The one I'm asking about is a Rocketport, not a Belkin.

Jim N7US

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McDonald" <n7us@arrl.net>
To: "Write Log (maillist)" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] White Heat USB to Serial



I have a Belkin hub, but need more serial ports.  This one looks interesting
to me.  Anyone tried it?  It's a Belkin 98270-8, a separate box with a USB
to 4 DB-9 connectors for $130 from buy.com.

Here's a link:

http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10238214&loc=14617

Jim N7US

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Thorne" <rthorne@tcac.net>
To: "Write Log (maillist)" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] White Heat USB to Serial



I was at K5NA's place for IARU this past weekend.  He had a WhiteHeat
USB to 4 db9 serial adapter.  Looks like a nice box.  Anyone using it
with Writelog?  He had one on his packet cluster with 4 kantronics TNCs
attached working very well.

While searching the web page I also found a Blue Heat PCI card.  They
have different kinds from 2 ports to 8 ports.  The 8 port has the option
of having a box with the db9's installed which may be convenient.  The
web site also says it supports 5,6,7 or 8 data bits, so that may be a
plus for fsk.

The web sites are:

The following is the retailer in NC that sells them:

http://www.emj.com/products/comnet/cti.html

Connect Techs web site:

http://www.connecttech.com

I like the USB route if it will work.  That would give 6 com ports,
which should handle most requirements.  However there is no info (that I
could find) that says wether the WhiteHeat USB to Serial converter will
handle 5 bits of data.  I'll shoot them a note and find out.

Anyways, is anyone using either of the above that would care to comment?

Thanks.

--
Richard Thorne
N5ZC
Amarillo, TX
http://www.tcac.net/~rthorne/html.index



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