[Elecraft] USB ports and things - with corrections

[lyle johnson]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:38:03 +0100
> ... have been trying to find a true Parallel to USB converter but 
>have failed so far. ... Anyone 
>know of a source of true LPT to USB converters...?

There are none.  Flex had to make one foer their product, and the HPSDR 
project had to work out a similar issue.  The cables you can buy are USB to 
printer cables, which as you found out is not the same thing.

You can buy PCMCIA or Cardbus to Parallel port adapters for $60 or less.  But 
they don't work with many computers.  None of my Dells that lack legacy ports 
will recognize any of the available cards (or at least the three that I 
located and bougfht); my Dells with legacy ports recognize and use all of them 
with no problems, so there is a BIOS issue you must contend with.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news,

73,

Lyle KK7P