[WriteLog] Interfacing WL to Elecraft K3

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> That may be true, but my experience has been nearly 100% with
> hardware serial ports, either built into the computer itself, a port
> replicator, or a Quatech PCMCIA 2-port serial card, and that
> experience goes back to 2001 vintage T2x-series Thinkpads (which have
> a single hardware serial port).

Older vintage XP based systems simple don't have the CPU power to
handle CPU based timing - particularly during disk access.  The
new quad core (8 processing units) CPUs do much better with CPU
tasks which has moved the bottleneck to the USB system.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2014-12-04 12:53 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Thu,12/4/2014 9:37 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>> Much of the USB related stuttering is caused by timing in the USB system.
>
> That may be true, but my experience has been nearly 100% with hardware
> serial ports, either built into the computer itself, a port replicator,
> or a Quatech PCMCIA 2-port serial card, and that experience goes back to
> 2001 vintage T2x-series Thinkpads (which have a single hardware serial
> port). One of them was my primary logging computer until about 2008. And
> as Ed suggested, that's why I bought and built a Winkey USB.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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