[Elecraft] What's wrong with Serial

[Chuck Mabbott]

At least Elecraft's does a duel purpose, there are hardware/ software 
vendors who reverse the wiring
in them just because they can and their special cable costs a bunch.......

Not going to name names but no one in ham radio community, for those who 
know something of
CNC machines I am sure you can guess

--
73  Chuck AA8VS

"If your CW transmission becomes three S bars
lower that is lower case letters?
 ... ever wonder"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Osborn" <kc0ukk at msosborn.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] What's wrong with Serial


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.
>

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