[Dx4win] SB-2000 INTERFACE

[Kostas Stamatis]

A friend of mine bought this interface even i told him not to do it. Anyway 
i had the chance to try it.
This is a Chinese product. The interface has a bad quality plastic case, a 
cd, and the cables you will need.
The installation is not very simple as my friend couldn;t do it. Finally he 
installed the software which is the driver of a usb to serial converter and 
nothing more. . Cd has also the  ham radio deluxe which is a free logging 
program. So i suppose that works with HRD (sri i have not tried this).If you 
have not noticed sb-2000 needs a soundcard to work.
So it makes one com port and tries to make ptt, cw, fsk and cat control 
using the same port . This has as a result when it does fsk to loose cat 
control. Ofcourse sb2000 can not do real fsk (usb to serial converter). If 
you want to make rtty you must use ext fsk with mmtty. So it works with 
mmtty on fsk (i repeat no cat control when does fsk). If the software 
doesn't support software generated fsk the only solution to operate rtty is 
to do afsk.
After all dx4win doesn't cooperate well with this product. You can do cw (no 
winkey of course but pc generated cw) and ptt. You can not have cat control 
the same time in dx4win. You can operate psk and afsk.
It costs abt 120 euros in Greece while someone can buy microham II with 150, 
which is much better (at least it has a program, works perfect with the 
dx4win and you can setup it for any program you want and you can save your 
settings, something very important for me). Also you can make your own which 
will be very similar to sb2000 or better (including usb to serial and 2 
ports if you need) with a cost of 20 euros. Finally I don't suggest it.
73 Kostas SV1DPI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ik1MDF" <ik1mdf at aruba.it>
To: "Kostas Stamatis" <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] SB-2000 INTERFACE


> ok Kostas,
> I will appreciate your job, thanks.
>
>
> Cordiali saluti ik1mdf
> Lorenzo Tabaracci
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kostas Stamatis" <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>
> To: <ik1mdf at aruba.it>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] SB-2000 INTERFACE
>
>
>> QRX
>> a friend bought it this morning
>> I think that a dx4win user will have problems as i read the manual but i 
>> will study it more later and i 'll inform you
>> 73 kostas sv1dpi
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "ik1MDF" <ik1mdf at aruba.it>
>> To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:27 PM
>> Subject: [Dx4win] SB-2000 INTERFACE
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know the use of CG SB-2000 interface together with DX4WIN?
>>>
>>> Any problems?
>>>
>>> best 73 Lorenzo IK1MDF
>>>
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