[Elecraft] USB Support - K3, K2?

[Thom LaCosta]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Vic K2VCO wrote:

> Thom LaCosta wrote:
>
>>> And then when the driver doesn't install correctly, they will be asked to 
>>> help, even if the problem is caused by some kind of resource conflict, 
>>> spyware, or whatever.
>> 
>> 
>> And they won't when it happens with the adpater they supply?
>> 
>
> This is possibly an argument for them *not* supplying an adapter and letting 
> it be the user's responsibility.
>
> Reselling an adapter is a courtesy -- they've tested it, they know it talks 
> to the radio.  The driver is the adapter manufacturer's responsibility. But 
> if this seems likely to lead to bad feelings or finger pointing, then they 
> should leave it up to the user to get an adapter if needed.

Hard for me to accept they would simply sell it as a courtesy....by selling it, 
they are implying it works.  I wouldn't do that, unless I had run a test with 
a specific computer and specific OS.

I think it's a matter of Elecraft realizing that newer computers may not have a 
serial port.  I suspect their tests of the adpater lead them to the conclusion 
that it would work in a high enough per centage of the times that they could 
offer it.

I don't think any of can really say that they will and won't do, could and 
should do, etc.

I think they were between a rock and a hard place ... they produce a radio that 
uses a computer interface that is not readily available on most new 
computers.

73 k3hrn
Thom,EIEIO
Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer

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