[Elecraft] What's wrong with Serial

[Matt Osborn]

Its a dual purpose port.  I run two cables out of the port, one is
short pig tail that is strictly RS-232 and terminates in a female
connector that can plug into a standard serial cable.  The other is
the control cable that I use to feed the transverters.

Keeps the two uses separate and avoids connection problems. 

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:55:39 -0700, Paul <designer at quickdata.com>
wrote:

>It seems to me the glaring error with Elecraft's serial port 
>implementation is the ability to blow the I/O card out of the water 
>if you use anything but the "special" K2 serial cable. They should 
>have designed it so you could use an "off the shelf" serial cable. 
>Way too much damage exposure. Really seems out of character to the 
>rest of the rig options.
>