[Elecraft] K2 - KIO2 stop bit oddity

[Brian Lloyd]

On May 14, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Ian J Maude wrote:

> Joe Planisky wrote:
>> Well, that's just it: you can't change it on the K2, and the KIO2  
>> manual says it should be 2 stop bits.
> You will normally find that 4800 baud tends to be set to 2 stop bits  
> but everything else appears to be 1.  I don't know why this is but  
> it seems to be the norm.

There is no reason for this. All the extra stop bit does is allow the  
receiver more time to process the most recently-received character  
before the next one arrives.

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