[Elecraft] How 'bout a USB interface?

[Ed Tanton]

Oh don't get me wrong, John... I LOVE USB. From the cpu end it's fabulous 
compared to the old serial port. The serial port here on my main cpu has 
almost nothing plugged into it. My mouse, DSL modem-sharer, and scanner are 
USB. My negative (film/slide) scanner is SCSI. My printer plugs into the 
LPT1 printer port. The ONE use I have for the serial port is my digital 
camera... and the current ones are all USB-if anything.

However, that said, there simply isn't anything existing to use USB for ham 
radio. No RTTY TUs; no Packett TUs; and what got this started: no rigs either.

Then there's software. Ham radio: nada. SWL: nada; RTTY: nada; and Packet: 
nada. With the state of the state, so to speak, I don't expect that to change.

I completely agree with the superiority of USB... I just do not believe it 
is economically feasible for the manufacturers to go to the trouble to 
change over.


73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>

Ed Tanton N4XY
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