[Elecraft] Re: What's wrong with Serial

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

This discussion is boring:
The radio is as the radio is- If you don't like the way your radio is,
you can change the connectors to whatever you want, with a separate
Murphy-proof connector for the AUX bus.  It would only take some trace
cutting and wiring, as well as finding the space for another
connector.

73, doug

   From: Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net>
   Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:32:03 -0400

   On Jun 20, 2006, at 1:03 AM, wayne burdick wrote:

   > Correct. Then the principle designer, N6KR, wrote:
   >
   >     We didn't have room for two connectors.

   Surely two Mini-DIN 6s or 8s would have fit. Of course, few people  
   would have cables to fit a Mini-DIN 8 unless they had some unused Mac  
   serial cables, or they might try to plug a mouse into a Mini-DIN 6....

   Pre-fab cables work well with Mini-DINs. Trying to make cables for  
   these connectors is a nightmare. Worse than the 8-pin mic connectors  
   transceivers use these days....