[Elecraft] K3 competition from Icom?

[Matt Patterson]

If your PC has a open PCI slot there are high speed serial cards still
available.  Think I paid $26 for the last one I purchased.

73 Matt
W5LL


On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 07:24 -0500, R. Kevin Stover wrote:
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> DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> > http://www.ab4oj.com/icom/ic7600/main.html
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> > not in my opinion!
> > 
> > de Doug KR2Q
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> Me neither but they did do something Elecraft had the chance to do and
> didn't. USB ports for rig control. I've always considered a Serial to
> USB adapter as a " box of chocolates", you never know what you're going
> to get. Whether it works or not depends entirely on the chip set used
> and the quality of the driver.
> 
> Elecraft should have used USB ports. You can't buy a desktop motherboard
> by any respected manufacturer that includes a serial port. The LGA 775
> board I'm looking at for an upgrade has zero serial ports but 8 on the
> mobo backplane and you can add four more to the front or back of the
> case with cables and unused motherboard USB headers.
> 
> It might be a trivial redesign of the KIO3 but I'm sure it's down the
> list if at all.
> 
> R. Kevin Stover, ACØH
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