[Elecraft] K3 USB TO SERIAL CABLE

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Good news Phil, but I have a little warning for others that you don't always
get an error message of some sort from Vista if the USB adapter drivers
don't work. 

I have a Radio Shack USB/232 adapter that works FB on my Xp machine.
Recently I used a Vista machine temporarily and hooked the adapter to it.
The system "did its thing" finding and installing the drivers, then reported
that the adapter was working normally. No BSD, no error message at all.
Quite the contrary, it reported the device was working FB. 

But it wasn't. Since I knew it was a good device, I knew it was Vista and
not the adapter. The adapter still works FB on my Xp machine.

In Radio Shack's defense, I went back and looked at the specs for the
adapter I have. It lists the OS's it works with and Vista was not on the
list. They do sell one that they say works with Vista. It was available
on-line only. I didn't need it so I haven't tried it. 

Ron AC7AC 


-----Original Message-----
"I am using vista 64 on my laptop computer.  Can anyone suggest where I 
might get a usb-serial cable with drivers for vista 64.  Any Ideas welcome. 
73 Norm VK4FNWG"

I bought the Elecraft USB adapter, and had to download the latest drivers 
when using it on my XP computer.  When I upgraded to my current VISTA 
computer, VISTA automatically went out and found the latest drivers for me. 
I didn't have to do anything.

Phil - AD5X 

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