[Elecraft] How 'bout a USB interface?

[Bill Coleman]

On 7/12/02 7:23 PM, John Clifford at johnclif@ix.netcom.com wrote:

>USB seems like a much simpler, better, and less-hassle interface (from the
>user's point of view).

A big AMEN to that. 

A USB interface would require drivers on the host computer -- but it 
would result in a functional interface. One that applications could call 
and get results. Rather than having applications encode strings to a 
serial port, and try to decipher the strings the K2 sends back.

You could also do interesting things with USB -- like send the receive or 
transmit audio to the host computer. There's more than enough bandwidth 
for that.

USB is pretty ubiquitious today. Apple stopped shipping serial ports on 
their computers back in 1999. Many PC companies are following suit these 
days.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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