[WriteLog] White Heat USB to Serial

[Jerry Pixton]

Jim,

I am using one. I first go it to use with my Dell Dimension computer for 
HF. But although it installed ok and worked fine. Until I powered off the 
computer and tried to restart the next day.  Then I would get a Win98 error 
message (from a very low level of the operating system - like when it was 
doing hardware checks before loading) and Win98 was dead. The only way I 
could restart was to physically remove the USB cable. Comtrol had never 
heard of such a problem, so were not of any help.

On the other hand, the unit has been running just fine for almost a year on 
my Dell Latitude portable computer on the VHF side. It works great.

So try it.

Jerry, W6IHG





At 08:21 PM 7/20/01 -0700, Jim McDonald wrote:

>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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