[WriteLog] USB Support

[W5PR]

I tried to send him a message to: om7zz at stonline.sksk but it bounced...

Chuck W5PR




> > See this posting to the CQ-Contest reflector by OM7ZZ:
> > 
>    http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2003-11/msg00103.html
> 
> Thanks Jim: pretty cool ...
> 
>   http://www.microham.com/USB1.jpg
> 
> Few thoughts / observations come to mind:
> 
> - not sure what kind of power these things draw ...
>   but I've seen a number of situations, especially 
>   with older, first go-round implementation of USB,
>   where people plug in a lot of things and exceed
>   what the system can handle
> 
> - I've used a small, external optionally powered
>   USB hub (I think Belkin - will have to get behind
>   the system to check it out) ... and it had RFI
>   ingress issues
> 
> - the aforementioned photo link above ...
>   shows a lot of cable between the USB interface
>   and the rig jacks ... from experience trying
>   to build up an SO2R setup chokes may be 
>   necessary on many/all of these connections
> 
> One last, final thought:
> 
> Appears that that nifty device does a number of things:
> CW keying, PTT and rig control (assume freq, etc.).
> 
> I hope that those functions can be *independantly* controled ...
> for situations like what we're doing: using the W5XD (or some
> other) box for CW, etc.
> 
> 73 Bob W1QA
> 
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