[WriteLog] USB Support

[Bob Naumann - N5NJ]

I did get through to him, and all of the USB products are only prototypes at this time.  He has gotten a huge amount of positive response, and will begin planning to produce these USB products.

>From my perspective, if the W5XD keyer box, or even more so if the ZS4TX voice & CW keyer box was USB driven, it would sell like crazy.

USB works.  I have a scanner, a photo printer, 2 digital cameras, and an MP3 player that use USB and they all work flawlessly on one of those little 4 port USB hubs.

No IRQ's to mess with and no conflicts.

I can't wait.

N5NJ
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From: "Ivan Dobrocky" <dobrocky at 24on.cc>
Date: 2003/11/12 Wed PM 01:44:00 CST
To: "W5PR" <W5PR at swbell.net>, 
	"Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog at W1QA.com>,  <writelog at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] USB Support

use OM7ZZ at microham.com

or OM7ZZ at stonline.sk 


73
Ivan OE1DIA / OM3LA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W5PR" <W5PR at swbell.net>
To: "Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog at W1QA.com>; <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] USB Support


> 
> 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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